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# Homocysteine may be only a biomarker for diseases
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/homocysteine_may_be_only_a_biomarker_for_diseases_0101100141/
- Published: 2010-01-01T13:41:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T18:45:02.000Z
- Description: High homocysteine has been tied to stroke, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, epilepsy, MS and ALS, but lowering it with vitamin therapy does not prevent vascular disease, suggesting it may be only a biomarker. Italian researchers did report that normalizing levels helped patients with cognitive impairment.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Disease, Health News, #vivvo-import

Hyper-homocysteinemia has been associated with a range of nervous diseases including stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Drugs have been developed to lower levels of homocysteine in the blood, but reducing serum homocysteine via vitamin therapy does not result in prevention of vascular disease, meaning that homocysteine may serve as only a biomarker, not a cause for any disease as many doctors believe.

In a report published in the Jan 2010 issue of Frontiers in bioscience (scholar edition), Ientile R and colleagues from University of Messina in Messina, Italy said that normalization of hyper-homocysteinemia led to improvement in patients with cognitive impairment.

By Jimmy Downs