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Dementia due to folate deficiency

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Link to WHO Definition

Dementia due to folate deficiency – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1543028500

Neuropsychological studies have suggested general and specific impairments of intellectual function, including attention, episodic and visual spatial memory, and abstract reasoning, attributed to folate deficiency. The onset of dementia is also more strongly associated with an exaggerated decline in folate and rise in homocysteine.