About 10% of patients who come to complex care hospitals may have low levels of folate and other indicators of malnutrition, investigators say. To ensure those patients are identified and helped, ...

It’s long been known that pregnant women should take folic acid to help protect their baby from birth defects. But now it seems the vitamin can help reduce the risk of dementia, and having low levels ...

In a recent study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers at the University of Cambridge assessed pre-fortification United Kingdom (UK) folate trends (2008-2019), ...

A case-control study has found that higher folate levels before or during early pregnancy are associated with a lower risk for congenital heart disease (CHD) in children. Folate supplementation may ...

A new article published in the American Journal of Hypertension finds that babies born to mothers with cardiometabolic risk factors were less likely to develop high blood pressure if their mothers had ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Maternal folate levels that were too low or too high were associated with risk of congenital heart disease in ...

Women who plan on becoming pregnant are told they need enough of the nutrient folate to ensure proper neurodevelopment of their babies, but new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ...

Maternal serum folate levels during early to midpregnancy show a U-shaped association with congenital heart disease (CHD) risk in offspring. Both low and high folate levels are linked to an increased ...

A new study challenges claims from some international scientific circles, that having high blood levels of folate (folic acid) increases the risk of poor cognition in older adults, especially in those ...