Despite concerns over the neurocognitive effects of micronutrient deficiencies in infancy, few studies have examined the effects of micronutrient supplementation on specific cognitive indicators. This study investigated, in 2002, the effects of iron-folic acid and/or zinc supplementation on the results of Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence (FTII) and the A-not-B Task of executive functioning amo...

introduction: elevated plasma total homocysteine is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease and a sensitive marker of vitamin b12 and folate insufficiency. folate and vitamin b12 have a protective effect on cardiovascular disease. this effect may be partly explained by mechanisms independent of homocysteine. this survey is the first population based study to evaluate the plasma to...

Iron and folate depletion in pregnancy Most women are unable to meet the demands of expanding red cell mass and fetal growth in pregnancy without depleting their stores of iron,3'5 and diet, even in developed countries, contains insufficient folic acid to prevent a reduction in tissue folate concentrations.67 As a result some pregnant women become anaemic. Supplements of 30-100 mg elemental iro...

Using varied study designs (none of which can confirm causality), investigators assessed the health impact wheat flour fortification after it was implemented at large scale in countries. Folic acid most studied nutrient and outcomes were neural tube defects, cancer, folate status, deficiency, anemia, iron hemoglobin iron-deficiency anemia (IDA). For all these except IDA, majority studies showed...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of short-term creatine monohydrate (cr) and folic acid (fa) supplementation on homocysteine (hcy) levels in young active males. eighteen young male soccer players (21.11±2.02 years, vo2max 56.51±2.31, hcy 13.45±0.59) volunteered to participate in this study. they were randomly divided into creatine monohydrate (n=6), folic acid (n=6) and ...