{"id":374,"date":"2022-09-13T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/lower-levels-of-folate-and-vitamin-b6-increase-the-risk-of-atherosclerosis\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:56:11","slug":"lower-levels-of-folate-and-vitamin-b6-increase-the-risk-of-atherosclerosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/lower-levels-of-folate-and-vitamin-b6-increase-the-risk-of-atherosclerosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower levels of folate and vitamin B6 increase the risk of atherosclerosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>High levels of the amino acid homocysteine increase the risk of atherosclerosis. This study evaluated the relationship between homocysteine, atherosclerosis and B vitamins. 750 patients with vascular disease were compared with 800 healthy people. Blood levels of homocysteine, folate, vitamin B12 and vitamin B6 were determined. The results showed that lower levels of folate and vitamin B6 increased the risk of atherosclerosis. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>K Robinson,\u00a0K Arheart,\u00a0H Refsum,\u00a0L Brattstr\u00f6m,\u00a0G Boers,\u00a0P Ueland,\u00a0P Rubba,\u00a0R Palma-Reis,\u00a0R Meleady,\u00a0L Daly,\u00a0J Witteman,\u00a0I Graham<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/9490237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary High levels of the amino acid homocysteine increase the risk of atherosclerosis. This study evaluated the relationship between homocysteine, atherosclerosis and B vitamins. 750 patients with vascular disease were compared with 800 healthy people. Blood levels of homocysteine, folate, vitamin B12 and vitamin B6 were determined. The results showed that lower levels of folate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[503,504,505],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6128,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/6128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}