Erratum: Folate intakes and folate biomarker profiles of pregnant Japanese women in the first trimester

Correction to: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2007) 61, 83–90. doi:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602497

Since the publication of this issue, the authors have identified some errors in the following pages. In page 86, under the heading Dietary intake, the last sentence should read more than 70% of subjects had a folate intake below 200 μg/1000kcal/day.

In page 87, Figure 2 and its caption should read as follows. In this same page, second paragraph should read ‘the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of folate in early pregnancy for prevention of NTD is 440 μg/day in the Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese, 2005 (Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Japan, 2005). Mean folate intake/day in all subjects was 289 μg/day in the present study. Only 7% of subjects had a folate intake above 440 μg/day, and folate intake was below the RDA in 93% of subjects’.

Figure 2

Distribution of folate intake per 1000 kcal in groups defined by serum folate concentration. Gray bar: low folate group (<9 ng/ml), black bar: high folate group (⩾9 ng/ml).

The authors apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.