The Associations Between Blood Levels of Homocysteine, Folate, Vitamin B12, and Retinal Vascular Caliber

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 148, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 902-909

  Gopinath, Bamini ^a,b   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,c   Flood, Victoria M ^a,d   Burlutsky, George ^a   Wong, Tien Y ^c,e   Mitchell, Paul ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HOMOCYSTEINE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFORMED CONSENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; RETINA VEIN;

AGED; AGING; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; VENULES; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 70449635131     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2009.07.018     Document Type: Article

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