Dietary folate intake and fecundability in two preconception cohorts.

ABSTRACT:

Study question

To what extent is dietary folate intake and total folate intake (dietary and supplemental intakes) associated with fecundability, the per cycle probability of conception?

Summary answer

Preconception dietary folate intake was positively associated with fecundability in a monotonic pattern.

What is known already

Supplemental folic acid has been associated with improved fertility, but little is known about the relation between dietary folate and fecundability.

Study design, size, duration

A prospective cohort study including 9559 women trying to conceive without fertility treatment and enrolled in the period 2013-2020.

Participants/materials, setting, methods

We used data from two internet-based prospective cohort studies of pregnancy planne

SUBMITTER: Cueto HT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8971647 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature