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Vitamins & MineralsFolate (B9)
B-vitamin essential for DNA synthesis. Critical in pregnancy to prevent neural tube defects.
What it measures
B-vitamin essential for DNA synthesis. Critical in pregnancy to prevent neural tube defects.
What a high value can mean
Supplementation; rarely clinically problematic on its own.
What a low value can mean
Poor diet, alcohol use, malabsorption, methotrexate, pregnancy demand.
Conditions it helps assess
- Macrocytic anemia
- Neural tube defect risk
Reading these numbers in context
Reference ranges describe the central 95 % of a healthy reference population — 5 % of perfectly healthy people fall outside any given range by definition. A single mildly abnormal value is rarely meaningful on its own. blood-test.life always interprets values together with related biomarkers before flagging.