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Article: Total homocysteine and estrogen status indicators in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
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- Alternative Medicine Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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Total homocysteine and estrogen status indicators in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Morris MS, Jacques PF, Selhub J, et al. Am J Epidemiol 2000; 152:140-148.
The possibility that estrogen status modulates total homocysteine concentration, a risk factor for vascular occlusion, was examined in a representative sample of the US population, the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (phase 2), 1991-1994. The geometric mean serum total homocysteine concentration was compared among population subgroups differing on inferred estrogen status, after adjusting for potential confounding by age, race-ethnicity, smoking, and the ...