This sample included women aged 18--25 years (60%), black women (41%), and women who had a high school education or less (49%). The median serum folate level (8.9 ng/mL) among this population was lower than the median of women of childbearing age (13.0 ng/mL) who participated in the 1999--2000 National Health and...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5113a2.htm
Furthermore, when vitamin B12 status was normal, high serum folate was related to protection from cognitive impairment. Among those with low vitamin B12 ...
www.pnas.org/content/104/50/19995.full
Folic acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Folic acid (also known as vitamin B 9 or folacin ) and folate (the naturally occurring form), as well as pteroyl-L-glutamic acid and pteroyl-L-glutamate , are forms of the water-soluble ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folic_acid
However, they do suggest that moderate-to-high serum folate concentrations are associated with a greatly reduced incidence of acute coronary events.
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/15277151
Also, low RBC folate levels correlate better with the degree of megaloblastic changes in the bone marrow than do low serum folate levels. ... Two patients ( Table 1 , patients 17 and 34) had high RBC folate levels; these findings might have been caused by a "methyl-folate trap" resulting from low vitamin B12 levels.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/410469_4
Serum and RBC folate levels were determined at baseline. .... Furthermore, the results suggest that high RBC folate levels may be associated with decreased ...
cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/16/6/1279.full
In conclusion, the present report is the first description of high serum folate concentration in experimentally A. phagocytophilum infected lambs. The present study indicates that A. phagocytophilum infected sheep can be used as a model in the study of soluble FBPs from neutrophils.
www.actavetscand.com/content/44/4/199
In human serum, it has been estimated that 60% to 70% of folates are bound to proteins [12]. Folate binding proteins (FBPs) are therefore crucial to the assimilation, ... FBPs have different functions based on their biochemical properties and can be divided into 3 classes: high-affinity folate binding proteins (HFBP),
www.actavetscand.com/content/44/4/199/abstract
Then, we examined the association between high serum folate and anemia and cognitive impairment in each group. Cognitive impairment was defined as a low score on a cognitive function test administered to the seniors.
www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/Publications.htm... www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/Publications.htm?seq_no_115=206930
5%) where serum folate is normal, but there is a high clinical suspicion of folate deficiency, further testing is warranted. Some authorities have suggested that plasma homocysteine is a satisfactory substitute for the problematic red cell folate assay in this situation.
www.clinlabnavigator.com/Tests/Folate.html www.clinlabnavigator.com/Tests/Folate.html
Definitions