Folic Acid Deficiency Anemia : Complications
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Symptoms of anemia can cause discomfort. In a pregnant woman, folate deficiency has been associated with neural tube or spinal defects (such as spina bifida) in the infant.
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Folic acid deficiency, an abnormally low level of one of the B vitamins , results in anemia characterized by red blood cells that are large in size but few in number.
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Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a life-threatening condition in which the heart can no longer pump enough blood to the rest of the body.
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Infertility is the inability to become pregnant after 12 months of unprotected sex (intercourse.
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Infertility is the failure of a couple to conceive a pregnancy after trying to do so for at least one full year. In primary infertility, pregnancy has never occurred.
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Infertility is the failure of a couple to conceive a pregnancy after trying to do so for at least one full year. In primary infertility, pregnancy has never occurred.
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Infertility is the failure to conceive a pregnancy after attempting for at least one full year. In primary infertility, pregnancy has never occurred.
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Neural tube defects are a group of severe birth defects in which the brain and spinal cord are malformed and lack the protective skeletal and soft tissue encasement. Incomplete formation and protection of the brain or spinal cord with bony and soft tissue coverings during the fourth week of embryo formation are known collectively as neural tube defects.
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Neural tube defects are a group of severe birth defects in which the brain and spinal cord are malformed and lack the protective skeletal and soft tissue encasement. Incomplete formation and protection of the brain or spinal cord with bony and soft tissue coverings during the fourth week of embryo formation are known collectively as neural tube defects.
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Neural tube defects, or NTDs, are a group of severe birth defects in which the brain and spinal cord are malformed and lack the protective encasement of soft tissue and bone. They are called neural tube defects because they develop out of a tube formed in the early embryo by the closure of the outer germ layer of tissue.
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