Homocysteine levels in men and women of different ethnic and cultural background living in England

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-102

  Cappuccio, Francesco P ^a   Bell, Rachel ^a   Perry, Ivan J ^b   Gilg, Julie ^a   Ueland, Per M ^c   Refsum, Helga ^c   Sagnella, Giuseppe A ^a   Jeffery, Steve ^a   Cook, Derek G ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular risk; Coronary Heart Disease; Diet; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Homocysteine; MTHFR polymorphism; Stroke; Vegetarianism

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIET RESTRICTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOSLEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED KINGDOM; VASCULAR DISEASE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO;

ADULT; AMINE OXIDOREDUCTASES; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUCASOID RACE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEGROID RACE; POLYMORPHISM (GENETICS); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MIDDLE AGED; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-NH GROUP DONORS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0035996584     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(02)00024-2     Document Type: Article

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