News tagged with homocysteine levels
High blood homocysteine levels are not linked with coronary heart disease
A comprehensive study in this week's PLoS Medicine shows levels of the amino acid, homocysteine, have no meaningful effect on the risk of developing coronary heart disease, closing the door on the previously suggested benefi ...
Cardiology
Feb 21, 2012 |
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JAMA commentary contends vitamin therapy can still reduce stroke
A commentary by Dr. David Spence of The University of Western Ontario and Dr. Meir Stampfer of the Harvard School of Public Health in today's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) argues that vitamin therapy still ...
Health
Dec 21, 2011 |
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Association between biomarkers and disease often overstated, researcher finds
More than two dozen widely cited studies linking genes or other "biomarkers" to specific diseases vastly overstate the association, according to new research from an expert in scientific study design at the Stanford University ...
Medical research
May 31, 2011 |
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Folic acid no help for heart and blood vessels
Folic acid does not reduce the risk of getting cardiovascular diseases, reports a three-year study of more than eight hundred people by Wageningen University. The results have been published in the American Journal of Cl ...
Medical research
May 12, 2011 |
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