Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. In this article I will talk about homocysteine.
Homocysteine is an amino acid that is produced in our body as an intermediate stage between the conversion of other amino acids.
Homocysteine has become a scarecrow because there is such a rare hereditary disease in which children are lagging behind in development and they develop atherosclerosis at a frantic pace.
Some people without this inherited disorder have fears about their own homocysteine. And this fear is not groundless ...
It turns out that in about 5 - 7% of the population, homocysteine in the blood is elevated and is associated with heart disease, strokes or venous thrombosis. It looks very suspicious.
Homocysteine is constantly formed and converted in each of us. For this, our body needs different vitamins. If we eat little vitamins B6, B9 and B12, then the blood becomes more homocysteine. On this topic, some people also have certain fantasies.
Who Should Get Homocysteine Tested?
It is checked in those who had relatives who suffered from that hereditary disease.
It is also tested in children who were lagging behind in development and suffered from strange adult vascular diseases.
It is very rare to find a young person who has this hereditary disease and who is still alive and not being examined.
It was all about a hereditary disease. If you are already great uncles and aunts, then you do not have this disease. And it makes no sense for you to be examined.
The increased level of homocysteine goes in parallel with all kinds of strokes and thromboembolisms. Even if by heroic efforts to lower homocysteine in the blood, nothing will change - you will get your stroke or thromboembolism exactly when it was planned.
Is it a shame? No, it's not offensive. The usual thing. Control other risk factors and forget about homocysteine.
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