FOLATE STATUS, WOMENS HEALTH, PREGNANCY OUTCOME, AND CANCER

Authors
BUTTERWORTH CE
Citation
Ce. Butterworth, FOLATE STATUS, WOMENS HEALTH, PREGNANCY OUTCOME, AND CANCER, Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 12(4), 1993, pp. 438-441
Citations number
34
Categorie Soggetti
Nutrition & Dietetics
Journal title
Journal of the American College of Nutrition → ACNP
ISSN journal
07315724
Volume
12
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
438 - 441
Database
ISI
SICI code
0731-5724(1993)12:4<438:FSWHPO>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Key observations by Dr. Lucy Wills 65 years ago have led to the identi fication of folate as a nutrient essential for the prevention of megal oblastic anemia of pregnancy. The more recently discovered relationshi ps of folate status to cervical dysplasia, nueural tube defects, and a therosclerosis are reviewed here.