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Homocysteine, small-vessel disease, and atherosclerosis: an MRI study of 825 stroke patients.
Neurology - 19 Aug 2014
Jeon Sang-Beom, Kang Dong-Wha, Kim Jong S, Kwon Sun U
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OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the relationship between hyperhomocysteinemia and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T polymorphism and small-vessel disease (SVD) and atherosclerotic large-vessel disease (LVD) in stroke patients. METHODS: A total of 825 noncardioembolic ischemic stroke patients whose plasma concentrations of total homocysteine were measured and whose MTHFR C677T polymorphism status was...
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