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NTR: Folate intake inadequate (GI, feeding, vomiting & dehydration) #7878

Closed pnrobinson closed 3 months ago

pnrobinson commented 1 year ago

New term request Folate intake inadequate (segal_110901211732): UMLS: 5230732

pnrobinson commented 3 months ago

@MickeySegal

Could you provide context? Is this in the index patient or in the mother?

MickeySegal commented 3 months ago

In the patient, in contrast to https://hpo.jax.org/browse/term/HP:6000165. The context here is dietary folate deficiency https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK535377/

pnrobinson commented 3 months ago

I am guessing that in clinical contexts, this would almost always be Reduced blood folate concentration HP:0100507 rather than by history, which perhaps outside of long sea voyages before citrus supplementation does not provide an accurate finding of vitamin deficiencies. If we want to have a dietary term, I am guessing that it would be better to have something like Lack of fruit/vegetables in diet ...

MickeySegal commented 3 months ago

The list is more diverse than that: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Folate-HealthProfessional/

We count on this finding coming up as a suggested useful finding for the clinician to ask about, and we give examples of "foods such as liver, spinach peas, or dietary supplements" and hyperlink to the URL above.