Prevalence and Incidence of Folate deficiency
Folate deficiency Prevalence: Book Excerpts
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Folic acid deficiency anemia:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Folic acid deficiency anemia may result from:
❑ alcohol abuse (alcohol may suppress metabolic effects of folate)
❑ poor diet (common in alcoholics, elderly people living alone, and infants, especially those with infections or diarrhea)
❑ impaired absorption (due to intestinal dysfunction from disorders such as celiac disease, tropical sprue, regional jejunitis, or bowel resection)
❑ bacteria competing for available folic acid
❑ excessive cooking, which can destroy a high percentage of folic acids in foods (See Foods high in folic acid.)
❑ limited storage capacity in infants
❑ prolonged drug therapy (anticonvulsants and estrogens)
❑ increased folic acid requirements during pregnancy; during rapid growth in infancy (common because of recent increase in survival of premature infants); during childhood and adolescence (because of general use of folate-poor cow’s milk); and in patients with neoplastic diseases and some skin diseases (chronic exfoliative dermatitis).
It’s estimated that 10% of the United States population has low folate stores.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
About prevalence and incidence statistics:
The term 'prevalence' of Folate deficiency usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Folate deficiency at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Folate deficiency refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Folate deficiency diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
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