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Folate requirements for health in women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2008

Helene McNulty
Helene McNulty
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Human Nutrition Research Group, University of Ulster, Coleraine BT52 1SA
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Symposium on ‘Nutritional issues for women’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 56 , Issue 1B , March 1997 , pp. 291 - 303
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1997

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