High homocysteine levels may indicate a vitamin deficiency and the chance of developing other conditions. Learn more about what high homocysteine levels mean.

Since homocysteine is a natural part of the body's metabolism, the researchers wanted to investigate metabolic pathways involving homocysteine in both rodents and humans with glaucoma.

Glaucoma researchers have long theorised that the substance homocysteine is somehow relevant to understanding the disease. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have investigated the role of ...

Blood levels of magnesium, homocysteine (Hcy), folate and vitamin B12 were measured, showing an inverse correlation between magnesium and Hcy and a positive correlation between magnesium, ...

Kilmer S. McCully, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School in the 1960s and ’70s whose colleagues banished him to the basement for insisting — correctly, it turned out — that homocysteine ...

High homocysteine levels can also be an indicator of a vitamin B deficiency, as B vitamins are what help break down homocysteine in the body. Past studies have linked high homocysteine levels to ...