Homocysteine, vitamins and sex
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Homocysteine, vitamins and sex.
tHcy predicted vascular disease more strongly in women than in men, while the reverse was true for fasting tHcy. While post-methionine tHcy was higher in men than in women, in line with previous studies, the percentage change was greater in women, possibly reflecting an overdose of methionine with respect to lean tissue mass. Unlike previous studies, the current paper found only slight evidence...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Heart Journal
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0195-668X
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.1999.1672