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Excessive Folic Acid Mimics Folate Deficiency in Human Lymphocytes
23 Mar 2022
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Food fortification with synthetic folic acid (FA), along with supplementation, results in a marked increase in the population total of serum folates and unmetabolized folic acid (UMFA). Despite the success in reducing neural tube defects at birth in the intended target population (women of childbearing age), the potential deleterious effects of chronically high levels of UMFA in susceptible segments of the...
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