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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 64, 587-593, Copyright © 1996 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc
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S Lussier-Cacan, M Xhignesse, A Piolot, J Selhub, J Davignon and J Genest Jr
Hyperlipidemia and Atherosclerosis Research Group, Hotel-Dieu Hospital, Montreal, Canada. cacans@ircm.umontreal.ca
Fasting plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) concentration was measured in 380 men and 204 women selected for health on the basis of clinical history, physical examination, and normal results of a biochemical profile. We sought to define tHcy reference values in healthy individuals and to determine relations between tHcy and plasma folic acid, vitamin B-12, and pyridoxal phosphate (vitamin B-6) concentrations. Men had significantly higher plasma tHcy than women (9.7 +/- 4.9 compared with 7.6 +/- 4.1 mumol/L, x +/- SD) and lower folate concentrations (8.6 +/- 5.2 compared with 9.8 +/- 6.6 nmol/L, P < 0.05). Significant correlations were found between tHcy and uric acid, creatinine, albumin, folate, and vitamin B-12 concentrations. There was no correlation with age, body mass index, blood pressure, glucose, and total and lipoprotein lipids. When divided in quartiles of vitamin concentrations, subjects with the lowest vitamin B-12 and folate values had significantly higher tHcy concentrations than those in the other three quartiles. Interestingly, after exclusion of subjects in the lowest quartiles of folate and vitamin B-12 concentration, correlations between tHcy and vitamin concentrations were no longer observed, except for vitamin B-12 in men. Stepwise- multiple-regression analyses showed that the sex-specific influence of biological variables on tHcy concentrations was twice as important in healthy women than in healthy men. This study emphasizes the significance of sex-associated differences in the biology of homocysteine and underlines the importance of considering these in the determination of threshold values.
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