Short-term and long-term variability of plasma homocysteine measurement

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 141-145

  Garg, Uttam C ^a,c   Zheng, Zhi Jie ^b   Folsom, Aaron R ^b   Moyer, Yvonne S ^a   Tsai, Michael Y ^a   McGovern, Paul ^b   Eckfeldt, John H ^a  

^a UPR   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIV OF MINNESOTA HOSP AND CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiovascular diseases; hyperhomocysteinemia; reliability coefficient; variation, source of

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031012051     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/43.1.141     Document Type: Article

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