Folate Deficiency Causes, Symptoms & More
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3. Pregnancy and Folate Deficiency
Folate plays a key role in preventing birth defects, such as spina bifida, a condition in which the baby’s brain or spine fails to form correctly. These neural tube defects frequently occur early in pregnancy, before a woman is aware she’s pregnant, so it’s critical that women planning to become pregnant take a daily vitamin supplement containing folic acid.4‘Folate Deficiency Anemia.’ Folate Deficiency Anemia | Michigan Medicine, www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/hw152337.
Folate deficiency during pregnancy may also lead to spontaneous abortion and language deficits in the unborn child.5Khan, Kashif M. ‘Folic Acid Deficiency.’ StatPearls /[Internet/]., U.S. National Library of Medicine, 30 June 2020, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK535377/.
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