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Folate (Folic Acid)
B vitamin required for DNA synthesis and normal red blood cell formation; deficiency can contribute to megaloblastic or macrocytic anaemia.
What is measured?
The level, concentration or activity of this biomarker measured in the relevant blood sample.
What the result represents?
Aden's range
What a raised or a low result can indicate
How Aden reads it as part of a system?
Aden reads this result alongside haemoglobin, MCV, MCH, MCHC, RDW, ferritin and your previous measurements. It is treated as one part of the wider cellular picture, not as a diagnosis on its own.
What changes between tests?
Which related markers give it context?
haemoglobin, MCV, MCH, MCHC, RDW, ferritin
How to get this tested?
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