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Focus on Homocysteine

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Christina Bolander-Gouaille

    1. Helsingborg, Sweden

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  • A disturbed homocysteine metabolism can cause pregnancy complications and fetal malformations, cardiovascular disease, dementia, psychiatric and neurologic disorders and possibly carcinogenesis
  • A disturbed homocysteine metabolism can in most cases be normalized
  • Many of these findings therefore directly concern most practitioners
  • There are thousands of publications on homocysteine

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-8
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  2. Introduction

    • Christina Bolander-Gouaille
    Pages 9-10

  3. What is homocysteine?

    • Christina Bolander-Gouaille
    Pages 11-13

  4. The homocysteine metabolism

    • Christina Bolander-Gouaille
    Pages 14-19

  5. How can hyperhomocysteinaemia be harmful?

    • Christina Bolander-Gouaille
    Pages 20-31

  6. Why do homocysteine levels increase?

    • Christina Bolander-Gouaille
    Pages 32-46

  7. Clinical conditions associated with hyperhomocysteinaemia

    • Christina Bolander-Gouaille
    Pages 47-68

  8. When and how to check the homocysteine levels

    • Christina Bolander-Gouaille
    Pages 69-73

  9. How to interpret the test results and how to handle hyperhomocysteinaemia

    • Christina Bolander-Gouaille
    Pages 74-79

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 80-95
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During the last 8-10 years the research on homocysteine has become very active. Hundreds of articles are now published each year. A disturbed homocysteine metabolism can be an underlying factor for pregnancy complications and fetal malformations, cardiovascular disease, dementia, psychiatric and neurologic disorders and possibly carcinogenesis. A disturbed homocysteine metabolism can in most cases be normalized by treatment with folate and/or vitamines B 12 and B 6. Many of these findings therefore directly concern most practitioners. However, if there are good reviews covering single aspects of this research, these are published in specialized journals. The author has realized the difficulties for the practitioner in keeping updated.

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  • Helsingborg, Sweden

    Christina Bolander-Gouaille

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