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Plasma Homocysteine and Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment

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Reitz, Christiane, Tang, Ming-Xin, Miller, Joshua, Green, Ralph, Luchsinger, José A.·2009·Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

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Background and Objective: There are conflicting data relating homocysteine levels to the risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We sought to explore whether fasting plasma homocysteine is associated with the risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an intermediate stage to dementia. Methods: Fasting levels of plasma homocysteine were obtained from 678 elderly subjects chosen at random from a cohort of Medicare recipients. There were longitudinal data in 516 subjects without MCI or dementia at baseline who were followed for 2,705 person-years. The relation of plasma homocysteine with prevalent and incident all-cause MCI, amnestic MCI and non-amnestic MCI was assessed using logistic and Cox proportional hazards regression analyses. Results: There were 162 cases of prevalent MCI and 132 cases of incident MCI in 5.2 years of follow-up. There was no association between plasma homocysteine and prevalence of MCI or amnestic or non-amnestic MCI in the cross-sectional analyses. There was no association between higher homocysteine levels and a lower risk of all-cause MCI. Consistent with the cross-sectional analyses, there was no specific association with the amnestic or non-amnestic subtype of MCI in crude or adjusted models. Conclusion: Plasma homocysteine levels measured at baseline were not related to MCI or its subtypes in an elderly multiethnic cohort.

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Authors
Reitz, C., Tang, M.-X., Miller, J., Green, R., & Luchsinger, J. A.
Affiliations
  • Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
  • University of California, Davis (US)
Venue
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Publisher
S. Karger AG
Published
2008-12-16
Volume
27
Issue
1
Pages
11-17
ISSN
  • 1420-8008 (ISSN-L)
  • 1421-9824
OpenAlex
W2069164663
Cited by
38
References
53
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1.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute on Aging (AG15294, P30AG015294, P01AG007232, AG 07702, AG 07232)
  • National Center for Research Resources (RR 00645, M01RR000645)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Rheumatology › Folate and B Vitamins Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
Keywords
plasma homocysteine, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment, dementia risk, older adults, hyperhomocysteinemia, biomarkers
MeSH terms
Aged, Amnesia, Apolipoproteins E, Cognition Disorders, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Genotype, Homocysteine, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Risk, Cohort Studies, Age of Onset

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