Heart Disease

American Heart Association Recommends Homocysteine Testing

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 11th, 1999

In the current issue of its weekly journal Circulation, an American Heart Association Science Advisory urges doctors to begin screening high-risk patients with a personal or family history of heart disease for elevated homocysteine levels.

The advisory comes in the wake of a number of recent studies, including a 14-year study at the Harvard School of Public Health involving 80,000 women, which concluded that high homocysteine levels play a central role in cardiovascular disease. An estimated 20 million Americans, more than one of every three people with heart disease, experience high levels of homocysteine. This means that screening for the problem could significantly...

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