Cardiovascular disease is an important cause of morbidity in recipients of renal transplants. The aim of the present study was to analyze the status of the arginine-creatine pathway in such patients, ...

In cross-sectional studies, elevated plasma homocysteine levels have been associated with poor cognition and dementia. Studies of newly diagnosed dementia are required in order to establish whether ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...