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The association of homocysteine and its determinants MTHFR genotype, folate, vitamin B12 and vitamin B6 with bone mineral density in postmenopausal British women.
Bone - 1 Mar 2007
Baines M, Kredan M-B, Usher J, Davison A, Higgins G, Taylor W, West C, Fraser W D, Ranganath L R
Abstract excerpt
We studied the association between plasma total homocysteine (tHcy), its determinants folate, vitamin B(12), vitamin B(6) and MTHFR genotype, and bone mineral density (BMD) in 328 postmenopausal British women. When the subjects were assigned to one of 3 groups (control, osteopenic or osteoporotic) according to their BMD at the os calcis, those in the osteoporotic group had, compared with the controls, a...
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