adequate intake of folate has an important role in the prevention of nutritional anemia and other complications in childbearing age women. this study was undertaken to determine dietary folate intake and concentration of folate in serum and red blood cell (rbc) in female students of a medical university in tehran, the capital of iran.  in this cross sectional study, 346 female students were ran...

the aim of this cross sectional study was to determine anemias due to deficiency of iron,vitamin B12 and folate in pregnant women,who were refered to Shahid doctor mofateh hospital in varamin.in this study hemoglobin value(<11g/dl) was used as the determinant of anemia,therefore,the study was performed on 251 pregnant women.the proportions of women having abortions and cesarean sections were 10...

background : increased level of serum homocysteine is one of the risk factor of atherosclerosis. its production related in some sulfur amino acids such as methionine. some important cofactors that are involved in metabolic pathways of this amino acid are folate and vitamin b12. we have assessed the status of methionine, folic acid, and vitamin b12 in some coronary atherosclerotic male patients....

the association between helicobacter pylori (hp) infection and concentration of folate or homocysteine are still unclear. the aim of the present study was to assess the effect of  hp infection on folate and homocysteine concentrations in patients infected with hp and healthy participants. we also assessed dietary intakes of folate, vitamins b6 and b12 in two groups. in this case-control study, ...

Folate is of prime interest among investigators in nutrition due to its multiple roles in maintaining health, especially in preventing neural tube defects and reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases. We investigated the effect of dietary folate intake on blood folate, vitamin B(12), vitamin B(6), and homocysteine status. One hundred subjects consisting of Chinese and Malay subjects volunte...

INTRODUCTION Folate deficiency is assessed by serum and red blood cell folate measurements. Nevertheless, no consensus for the lower limit of serum folate reference values exists. We investigated the appropriate use of RBC folate to detect folate deficiency and the relationship between serum and RBC folate and with other parameters such as vitamin B12 and homocysteine in order to propose serum ...

OBJECTIVE Assess the need for folate testing, frequency of corrective action, and determine reference level for serum folate. METHODS Serum folate levels in 5313 samples from 4448 patients, and clinical data were reviewed for patient characteristics and for (a) evidence of corrective action in patients with serum folate values <5.5 ng/mL, and (b) differences in patients with serum folate leve...

AIMS The National Pathology Alliance benchmarking review has completed five years of data collection and analysis of the workload and organisation of haematology laboratories in the UK. This study analyses variation in practice in how laboratories respond to a request to determine whether or not a patient has folate deficiency. METHODS A three year analysis of workload data on the number of s...

By Biuu’ ui n A. COOPER AND Louis LOWENSTEIN T HE DETERMINATION of folate activity in serum with Lactobacillus casei allows recognition of patients with folate deficien y.13 It has been observed that much of the L. casei-active folate in human serum consists of N5-methyl tetrahydropteroyl monoglutamate,4 and that the concentration of folate activity in serum is increased in some patients with p...