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Folate Tablets
Folate deficiency means you have a lower-than-normal amount of folic acid, a type of B vitamin, in your blood.
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Alternative Names
Deficiency - folic acid, Folic acid deficiency
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Folic acid works along with vitamin B12 and vitamin C to help the body break down, use, and create new proteins. The vitamin helps form red blood cells and produce DNA, the building block of the human body, which carries genetic information.
Folic acid is a type...
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