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Cardiac Failure and Folate Deficiency
SIR,-Your interesting leading article on cardiac failure and folate deficiency (24 January, p. 188) commented on the possible causes of this association, and factors like impaired dietary intake and gastrointestinal malabsorption were mentioned. A contributory cause could well be excessive folate loss in the urine. Urinary folate excretion has been poorly studied, but we recently reported an un...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1970
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.5709.604-b