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Plasma homocysteine and risk of mild cognitive impairment.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2009
Reitz Christiane, Tang Ming-Xin, Miller Joshua, Green Ralph, Luchsinger José A
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: There are conflicting data relating homocysteine levels to the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). We sought to explore whether fasting plasma homocysteine is associated with the risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an intermediate stage to dementia. METHODS: Fasting levels of plasma homocysteine were obtained from 678 elderly subjects chosen at random from a cohort of Medicare...
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