Poor metabolic control, early age at onset, and marginal folate deficiency are associated with increasing levels of plasma homocysteine in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A five-year follow-up study

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Poor metabolic control, early age at onset, and marginal folate deficiency are associated with increasing levels of plasma homocysteine in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A five-year follow-up study. / Hultberg, Björn; Agardh, Carl-David; Agardh, Elisabet; Lövestam Adrian, Monica.

In: Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation, Vol. 57, No. 7, 1997, p. 595-600.

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Harvard

Hultberg, B, Agardh, C-D, Agardh, E & Lövestam Adrian, M 1997, 'Poor metabolic control, early age at onset, and marginal folate deficiency are associated with increasing levels of plasma homocysteine in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A five-year follow-up study', Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 595-600.

APA

Hultberg, B., Agardh, C-D., Agardh, E., & Lövestam Adrian, M. (1997). Poor metabolic control, early age at onset, and marginal folate deficiency are associated with increasing levels of plasma homocysteine in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A five-year follow-up study. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation, 57(7), 595-600.

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Hultberg B, Agardh C-D, Agardh E, Lövestam Adrian M. 1997. Poor metabolic control, early age at onset, and marginal folate deficiency are associated with increasing levels of plasma homocysteine in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A five-year follow-up study. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 57(7):595-600.

MLA

Hultberg, Björn et al. "Poor metabolic control, early age at onset, and marginal folate deficiency are associated with increasing levels of plasma homocysteine in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A five-year follow-up study". Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 1997, 57(7). 595-600.

Vancouver

Hultberg B, Agardh C-D, Agardh E, Lövestam Adrian M. Poor metabolic control, early age at onset, and marginal folate deficiency are associated with increasing levels of plasma homocysteine in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A five-year follow-up study. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 1997;57(7):595-600.

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Hultberg, Björn ; Agardh, Carl-David ; Agardh, Elisabet ; Lövestam Adrian, Monica. / Poor metabolic control, early age at onset, and marginal folate deficiency are associated with increasing levels of plasma homocysteine in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A five-year follow-up study. In: Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 1997 ; Vol. 57, No. 7. pp. 595-600.

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Poor metabolic control, early age at onset, and marginal folate deficiency are associated with increasing levels of plasma homocysteine in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A five-year follow-up study

AU - Hultberg, Björn

AU - Agardh, Carl-David

AU - Agardh, Elisabet

AU - Lövestam Adrian, Monica

N1 - The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Division of Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology (013250300), Unit on Vascular Diabetic Complications (013241510), Ophthalmology (Lund) (013043000)

PY - 1997

Y1 - 1997

N2 - In a previous study, we showed that diabetic patients exhibited significantly increased concentrations of total plasma homocysteine (tHcy), but not until the onset of nephropathy. It was suggested that the hyperhomocysteinaemia might contribute to the accelerated atherosclerotic process in diabetic patients. In the present study, we have analysed the main determinants of plasma homocysteine (i.e. serum cobalamin, blood folate and serum creatinine), and also some other parameters related to diabetes mellitus, such as medical history, metabolic and renal quantities, on two occasions with a 5-year interval in 50 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, in order to further elucidate the relation between plasma tHcy and diabetes mellitus. The result of the present study shows that diabetic patients with the lowest age at onset and with the poorest metabolic control are those most prone to a rapid increase in plasma tHcy concentration. The increment in plasma tHcy concentration in this group of patients may at least partly be explained by a marginal deficiency of blood folate concentrations.

AB - In a previous study, we showed that diabetic patients exhibited significantly increased concentrations of total plasma homocysteine (tHcy), but not until the onset of nephropathy. It was suggested that the hyperhomocysteinaemia might contribute to the accelerated atherosclerotic process in diabetic patients. In the present study, we have analysed the main determinants of plasma homocysteine (i.e. serum cobalamin, blood folate and serum creatinine), and also some other parameters related to diabetes mellitus, such as medical history, metabolic and renal quantities, on two occasions with a 5-year interval in 50 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, in order to further elucidate the relation between plasma tHcy and diabetes mellitus. The result of the present study shows that diabetic patients with the lowest age at onset and with the poorest metabolic control are those most prone to a rapid increase in plasma tHcy concentration. The increment in plasma tHcy concentration in this group of patients may at least partly be explained by a marginal deficiency of blood folate concentrations.

M3 - Article

VL - 57

SP - 595

EP - 600

JO - Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation

JF - Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation

SN - 1502-7686

IS - 7

ER -