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    Smoking in pregnancy, cord blood cotinine and risk of celiac disease diagnosis in offspring

    Ecological observations suggest an inverse relationship between smoking in pregnancy and celiac disease (CD) in offspring. While individual-level analyses have been inconsistent, they have mostly lacked statis...

    Karl Mårild, German Tapia, Øivind Midttun in European Journal of Epidemiology (2019)

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    The Hordaland Homocysteine Study: Lifestyle and Total Plasma Homocysteine in Western Norway

    The Hordaland Homocysteine Study is a cohort of approximately 18,000 men and women, ages 40–67, who had their total plasma homocysteine (tHcy) determined in 1992 or 1993. The long-term aim of the study is to r...

    Stein E. Vollset, Ottar Nygård, Gunnar Kvåle in Homocysteine Metabolism: From Basic Scienc… (1997)

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    On the Formation and Fate of Total Plasma Homocysteine

    The total concentration of homocysteine (tHcy)* in plasma is a useful marker of impaired function of cobalamin and folate. Moreover, it is an independent risk factor for atherosclerotic disease [1]. These find...

    Helga Refsum, Anne B. Guttormsen in Homocysteine Metabolism: From Basic Scienc… (1997)

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    Homocysteine and Drug Therapy

    Several agents other than vitamins involved in homocysteine (Hcy) metabolism affect plasma homocysteine (tHcy) total concentration. The mechanisms behind the hyperhomocysteinemia vary from altered homocysteine...

    Per M. Ueland, Torunn Fiskerstrand in Homocysteine Metabolism: From Basic Scienc… (1997)