Association between Plasma Homocysteine Concentrations and Extracranial Carotid-Artery Stenosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 332, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 286-291

  Selhub, Jacob ^a   Jacques, Paul F ^a   Bostom, Andrew G ^b   D'agostino, Ralph B ^c   Wilson, Peter W f ^b   Belanger, Albert J ^c   O'leary, Daniel H ^d   Wolf, Philip A ^e   Schaefer, Ernst J ^a   Rosenberg, Irwin H ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; PYRIDOXINE;

AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VITAMIN INTAKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMAN; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PYRIDOXAL PHOSPHATE; PYRIDOXINE; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 0028966321     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199502023320502     Document Type: Article

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