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Record W2025113387 · doi:10.1007/bf01616850

Homocysteine, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease

2005· article· en· W2025113387 on OpenAlexaff
Kailash Prasad

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Angiology · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicFolate and B Vitamins Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineHyperhomocysteinemiaHomocysteineEndothelial dysfunctionInternal medicineVascular diseaseRisk factorCardiologyCoronary artery diseaseStroke (engine)EndotheliumThrombosisDiabetes mellitusEndocrinology

Abstract

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Fasting hyperhomocysteinemia is an independent risk factor for coronary artery disease, stroke, peripheral vascular atherosclerosis, and for arterial and venous thromboembolism. The risk for cardiovascular disease with homocysteine is similar to conventional risk factors. The interaction of hyperhomocysteinemia with hypertension and smoking is strong and the combined effect is more than multiplicative. The combined effect of homocysteine and cholesterol is additive. Homocysteine produces atherosclerosis, thromboembolism, and vascular endothelial cell injury. Vascular dysfunction produced by homocysteine may be due to endothelial cell damage. Homocysteinemia-induced atherosclerosis is probably due to various factors including endothelial cell injury, inability to sustain S-nitroso-homocysteine formation because of imbalance between production of nitric oxide by dysfunctional endothelium and homocysteine, smooth muscle cell proliferation, and thromboembolism. There is strong evidence that endothelial cell injury is associated with oxidative stress produced by homocysteine. Hyperhomocysteinemia is associated with numerous conditions, including coronary disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease (carotid artery and cerebrovascular atherosclerosis), venous thrombosis, renal disease, diabetes mellitus, and organ transplant. Folic acid, vitamin B12 and B6 have been shown to be beneficial in reducing plasma homocysteine levels. Folic acid is specifically very effective, safe and inexpensive.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.884
Threshold uncertainty score0.195

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.333
Teacher spread0.307 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2005
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