Homocysteine recently gained access to the category of risk factor for the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the general population. Chronic renal failure patients, even before being introduced to dialysis therapy have almost universal elevation of serum homocysteine; when on dialysis their mortality is above 50% related to cardiovascular disease that we might now speculate, with a contribution of potentially toxic levels of the aminoacid homocysteine.
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Lowering of Homocysteine blood levels in uremia.
Prevention of cardiovascular events