Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer
No association found between plasma homocysteine, B12, and folate levels
Published in Genetics and Environmental Business Week, February 24th, 2005
According to scientists writing in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences, "High plasma homocysteine (tHcy) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and stroke and Alzheimer disease (AD). An inverse relationship has been reported between tHcy and plasma B12 and folate levels."
E.H. Mizrahi and colleagues of the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Israel described their study, "Seventy-nine AD patients and 156 controls from three Arab villages in northern Israel participated. Plasma tHcy, B12 and folate levels were...
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