Total homocysteine is associated with white matter hyperintensity volume: The Northern Manhattan study

Stroke

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1207-1211

  Wright, Clinton B ^a,f   Paik, Myunghee C ^b   Brown, Truman R ^a   Stabler, Sally P ^d   Allen, Robert H ^d   Sacco, Ralph L ^a,c   DeCarli, Charles ^e  

^a Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b University of Colorado ^*  (United States)

^c Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Homocysteine; Magnetic resonance imaging; White matter

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; HOMOCYSTEINE;

AGE; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; UNITED STATES; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 20444410004     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000165923.02318.22     Document Type: Article

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