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ArticleThe Journal of nutrition2017

Folate Deficiency Is Prevalent in Women of Childbearing Age in Belize and Is Negatively Affected by Coexisting Vitamin B-12 Deficiency: Belize National Micronutrient Survey 2011.

Jorge Rosenthal, Natalia Largaespada, Lynn B Bailey, Michael Cannon, C J Alverson, Dayrin Ortiz, Gail Pa Kauwell, Joe Sniezek, Ramon Figueroa, Robyn Daly and 1 more

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Article in The Journal of nutrition, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Jorge RosenthalNational Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; jyr4@cdc.gov.ORCID 0000-0001-5850-1228
Natalia LargaespadaBelize Ministry of Health, Belmopan, Belize.
Lynn B BaileyUniversity of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Michael CannonNational Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.ORCID 0000-0001-5776-5010
C J AlversonNational Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.ORCID 0000-0002-1835-7599
Dayrin OrtizUniversity of San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Gail Pa KauwellUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and.ORCID 0000-0003-0239-5942
Joe SniezekNational Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
Ramon FigueroaBelize Ministry of Health, Belmopan, Belize.
Robyn DalyBelize Ministry of Health, Belmopan, Belize.
Peter AllenBelize Ministry of Health, Belmopan, Belize.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · USUniversity of Belize · BZUniversidad de San Carlos de Guatemala · GTUniversity of Florida · USUniversity of Georgia · US

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Nutritional StatusAdolescentAdultAnemiaBelizeErythrocytesFemaleFolic AcidFolic Acid DeficiencyHemoglobinsHumansMiddle AgedNutrition SurveysPrevalenceRisk FactorsVitamin B 12Folic AcidHemoglobinsVitamin B 12Vitamin B Complexanemiafolate deficiencyfolate insufficiencyvitamin B-12 deficiencywomen of childbearing age

Identifiers

PMID28404832
PMCPMC5548006
OpenAlexW2606515327

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Registered trials

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