Info on Folic Acid - Baby, Brain and Heart Health

Reference Page

If you found this page on info on folic acid from a search engine, we'd like you to know that this page is a reference page for our page on folic acid. Our page on folic acid hopefully condenses for you, the research you see below into an easy to digest form (get it? - easy to digest?...).

Dementia and Depression Info on Folic Acid

National Library of Medicine

Folate, vitamin B12, and neuropsychiatric disorders

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9155210

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Homocysteine, folate, methylation, and monoamine metabolism in depression

http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/69/2/228.abstract

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Microvascular disease and dementia in the elderly: are they related tohyperhomocysteinemia?

http://www.ajcn.org/content/71/4/859.full

Heart and Vascular Disease Info on Folic Acid

Archives of Internal Medicine

Hyperhomocysteinemia and Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease

http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/158/12/1301
 

Archives of Internal Medicine

Homocysteine and Ischemic Heart Disease

http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/158/8/862.pdf

American Heart Association

Homocysteine, Diet, and Cardiovascular Diseases

http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/circulationaha%3B99/1/178

Archives of Internal Medicine

Randomized trial of folic acid supplementation and serum homocysteine levels

http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/161/5/695.pdf

American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Homocysteine and vitamins in cardiovascular disease

http://www.clinchem.org/cgi/content/full/44/8/1833

Archives of Internal Medicine

Effect of Lowering of Homocysteine Levels on Inflammatory Markers

http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/165/12/1388

Birth Defects Info on Folic Acid

Journal of the American Medical Association

Impact of Folic Acid Fortification of the US Food Supply on the occurrence of Neural Tube Defects

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/285/23/2981.abstract

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Folic Acid Helps Prevent Some Birth Defects

http://www.cdc.gov/node.do?id=0900f3ec80010af9

Archives of Family Medicine

Knowledge of Periconceptional Folic Acid for the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects

http://archfami.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/7/5/438.pdf

Journal of the American Medical Association

Knowledge and Use of Folic Acid by Women of Childbearing Age: United States

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056982.htm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Use of Folic Acid Containing Supplements Among Women of Childbearing Age

http://www.cdc.gov/datastatistics/2008/folicAcid/

Journal of Nutrition

Homocysteine and neural tube defects

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/126/3_Suppl/756S.short

National Library of Medicine

Open or closed? A world of difference: a history of homocysteine research

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9735677

Safety Info on Folic Acid

Archives of Internal Medicine

How safe are folic acid supplements?

http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/156/15/1638