Hyperhomocysteinemia following a methionine load in patients with non- insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and macrovascular disease

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 133-135

  Munshi, Medha N ^a   Stone, Angie ^a   Fink, Louis ^a   Fonseca, Vivian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Div of Endocrinol and Metabolism   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE; METHIONINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HOMOCYSTINURIA; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 0029915563     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-0495(96)90211-5     Document Type: Article

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