HOMOCYSTEINE LINKED TO STROKE,STUDY

In another study of 500 Afro- American woman age 15 to 44, the increased risk of stroke because of HOMOCYSTEINE was similar to that of smoking a pack of cigaretts per day.
"We found that younger women who had the highest levels of Homocysteine had double the risk of stroke, compared to women with lower levels'', says Steven J. Kittner,MD M.P.H., Professor of
Neurology Medicine, Epidemiolgy, and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.