Bergen, Norway - As well as being associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, high homocysteine levels may also predict noncardiovascular mortality, a new prospective cohort study has shown.

Consistently high homocysteine levels are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and several other conditions. If a person is concerned about their homocysteine levels ...

June 26, 2005 (Boston) -- In the largest study to date, high levels of the amino acid homocysteine were related to almost a 2-fold increase in the risk for hip fracture in postmenopausal women. Lead ...

Norman Swan: Talking of brain damage, research at the University of New South Wales has correlated brain shrinkage on scans with a high homocysteine level in people's blood. Homocysteine, which can be ...

High levels of homocysteine, a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease, also independently predict contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention ...

High levels of homocysteine can contribute to the accumulation of neurofibrillary tangles in the brain and lead to nerve cell death, dementia, and neurodegenerative disease, observes a new study. The ...

For the first time, research has linked the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia to elevated blood concentrations of the amino acid homocysteine. Scientists had previously ...

Patients with end-stage kidney disease treated with high doses of folic acid and B vitamins to lower homocysteine levels did not have improvement in survival or reductions in the incidence of vascular ...

People with elevated levels of homocysteine in the blood had nearly double the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD), according to a new report from scientists at Boston University. The findings ...

Having higher-than-normal levels of homocysteine in the bloodstream increases vulnerability to heart diseases, such as blood clots, heart attacks and stroke. The age group of 18-30 years had the ...

Vitamin B 12 deficiency was not related to the development of anemia in elderly people aged 85 years, according to data from the Leiden 85-Plus Study. According to researchers from Leiden University ...