A tale of two homocysteines - And two hemodialysis units

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 215-219

  Hoffer, L John ^a,b   Bank, Ilana ^a,b   Hongsprabhas, Pranithi ^a,b   Shrier, Ian ^a,b   Saboohi, Farhad ^a,b   Davidman, Michael ^a,b   Bercovitch, David D ^a,b   Barré, Paul E ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYSTEINE; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0033950473     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-0495(00)91351-9     Document Type: Article

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