Abstract
Serum homocysteine levels, which increase with age, are now recognized as a vascular risk factor and are related to the development of heart failure and dementia in the elderly. However, relatively low serum homocysteine levels have also been reported to be an adverse prognostic factor in dialysis patients. The objective of the study was to analyze the prevalence, clinical significance, and prognostic value of serum homocysteine levels in patients older than 65 years, admitted to a general internal medicine hospitalization unit. We studied 337 hospitalized patients, 184 males and 153 females, aged 77.2+/-0.4 years, whose admission was not determined by an acute vascular event. We recorded past vascular events and vascular risk factors. We determined the body mass index (weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters), and cholesterol, triglyceride, folate, vitamin B12, and homocysteine levels. We also studied 36 control subjects (18 males and 18 females) of similar age. After discharge, we assessed the survival status of 301 patients by telephone recall. Survival curves were plotted by the method of Kaplan and Meier. Median survival was 1186 days. The 15th (9.6 micromol/L) and 50th (14.4 micromol/L) percentiles, ...Continue Reading
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