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Importance of Topic to Practice
Although humans can endogenously synthesize choline, this supply is not sufficient to meet needs and research has found that choline is a dietary essential nutrient (1). The literature regarding choline suggests that inadequate intakes may be associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, negative birth outcomes including neural tube defects, cystic fibrosis, cancer, and sleep duration (1-3). By determining which populations are more susceptible to choline