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• TITLE: Serum homocysteine concentrations of Chinese intellectuals and the influential factors concerned

  AUTHORS: Yue Hou, Yan Hong, Wei-Qiang Chen, Dong-Lan Wang, Yi-Yong Cheng

  KEYWORDS: Homocysteine; Psychological Stress; In-tellectual

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.1 No.2, September 28, 2009

  ABSTRACT: Objective: To observe the concentration of se-rum homocysteine in intellectuals and the re-lated influential factors. Methods: The concen-trations serum homocysteine and saliva cortisol were measured in 138 intellectuals from three cities, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Chengdu in China. All the subjects had senior titles of tech-nical post, aged 40-69 years. Results: The mean value of serum homocysteine concentration in intellectuals was 20.6±0.8μmol/L, higher than the reference value. With the increase of cortisol levels the homocysteine concentrations rise (P