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Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:22 PM

Published 11/06/2009 by News-Medical.Net


Women with high levels of homocysteine more likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease

Middle-aged women with high levels of a specific amino acid in their blood are twice as likely to suffer from Alzheimer's many years later, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. This discovery this could lead to a new and simple way of determining...

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"Alzheimer s disease was more than twice as common among the women with the highest levels of homocysteine than among those with the lowest, and the risk for any kind of dementia was 70 per cent higher" says doctor Dimitri...
Women with high levels of homocysteine more likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease [News-Medical.Net - 11/06/2009]
...vitamin status. "These days we in our clinical practice use homocysteine analyses mainly for assessment of vitamin status. However, our results mean that we could use the very same analysis för assessment of individual's risk profile for dementia development. This opens the possibility for future preventive treatment at a very early stage" , says Zylberstein
Women with high levels of homocysteine more likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease [News-Medical.Net - 11/06/2009]
"We have only been able to carry out a genetic analysis on just over 550 of the blood samples from the Prospective Population Study of Women, and want to undertake bigger studies before we can say for sure that the gene really does protect against dementia" says professor Lauren...
Women with high levels of homocysteine more likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease [News-Medical.Net - 11/06/2009]

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