High homocysteine levels, or hyperhomocysteinemia, may indicate that a person has a deficiency in specific vitamins. Experts also associate hyperhomocysteinemia with a higher risk of cardiovascular ...
The epidemiologic link between elevated blood homocysteine (HC) and Alzheimer disease (see ARF related news story) has spurred the search for the mechanisms by which this ubiquitous amino acid might ...
In order to understand the evidence linking B vitamins to brain shrinkage (or atrophy), we have to look more closely at an amino acid called homocysteine. (1) Homocysteine is the bad boy of the folate ...