Low levels of folate (vitamin B9) in the blood may be linked to a heightened risk of dementia and death from any cause in older people, suggests research published online in the journal Evidence Based ...

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 ...

Pregnant women with either low or excessively high levels of folate in their blood may face a greater risk of their children developing congenital heart disease, according to a study from Guangdong ...

While folate’s role in supporting fetal growth and development is well established, a new Stanford-led study suggests it may also help slow biological aging in older adults. Published in The American ...

In conclusion, the findings of this study suggest that increased dietary folate intake was not associated with prostate cancer risk. However, increased serum folate levels were associated with an ...

Scientists have learned more about the genetic factors that may underlie double-jointedness, also known as hypermobility, and diseases that affect connective tissue called hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos ...

Surgical resection based on ontogenetic cancer field theory for cervical cancer: 10-year updated results of the MMR study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

Patients with sickle cell anemia often are given folate supplementation on the premise that their chronic hemolytic anemia might lead to folate depletion. However, clinical folate deficiency rarely ...

Folic acid supplementation throughout pregnancy was correlated with a lower risk of early-onset Kawasaki disease in offspring, a Japanese observational study showed. In a propensity score-matched ...

A comprehensive panel of mutation scanning assays detects mutations in the APC, TP53, KRAS, BRAF genes and hypermethylated APC and MLH1 DNA in plasma of patients with various stages of colorectal ...