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Selection of data for the current analysis. People with missing outcome information or missing information on any main influencing factors were excluded. Due to incompleteness of some data, measurements before 2004 were excluded. The final data set included 291 908 individual measurements. *Serum folate (n 4), invalid age (n 1), missing age (n 1), missing gender (n 120)
