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Derivation and validation of homocysteine score in u.s. Men and women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One-carbon metabolism, which is crucial in DNA synthesis and genomic stability, is an interrelated network of biochemical reactions involved in several dietary and lifestyle factors. The development of the homocysteine score using these factors may be useful to reflect the status of one-carbon metabolism in large epidemiologic studies without biologic samples to measure homocysteine directly.

Objective

The aim of this study was to develop an homocysteine score that reflects one-carbon metabolism better than individual dietary or lifestyle factors.

Methods

We divided 2023 participants with measured plasma total homocysteine data in the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study into training (n = 1619) and testing (n = 404) subsets. Using multivariable linear regression, we selected lifestyle determinants of plasma homocysteine in the training set and derived the homocysteine score weighted by the ? coefficient for each predictor. The validation of the homocysteine score was assessed using the plasma homocysteine in the independent samples of the training set.

Results

In the training set, smoking, multivitamin use, and caffeine, alcohol, and dietary and supplemental folate intake were significant independent determinants of plasma homocysteine in multivariable linear regression (P ? 0.01) and were included in the derivation of the homocysteine score. The Pearson correlation of the homocysteine score with plasma homocysteine was 0.30 in the testing subset (P < 0.001). The homocysteine score was positively associated with the plasma homocysteine concentration in the testing subset and in an independent population of women; the mean difference of plasma homocysteine concentration between the extreme quintiles of homocysteine score ranged from 0.83 ?mol/L to 1.52 ?mol/L. Population misclassification either from the lowest quintile of plasma homocysteine into the highest quintile of the homocysteine score or from the highest quintile of plasma homocysteine into the lowest quintile of the homocysteine score was ?12%.

Conclusion

These data indicate that the homocysteine score may be used with relatively inexpensive and simple questionnaires to rank an individual's one-carbon metabolism status when homocysteine data are not available.

SUBMITTER: Jung S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4264025 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Derivation and validation of homocysteine score in u.s. Men and women.

Jung Seungyoun S Je Youjin Y Giovannucci Edward L EL Rosner Bernard B Ogino Shuji S Cho Eunyoung E

The Journal of nutrition 20141112 1

<h4>Background</h4>One-carbon metabolism, which is crucial in DNA synthesis and genomic stability, is an interrelated network of biochemical reactions involved in several dietary and lifestyle factors. The development of the homocysteine score using these factors may be useful to reflect the status of one-carbon metabolism in large epidemiologic studies without biologic samples to measure homocysteine directly.<h4>Objective</h4>The aim of this study was to develop an homocysteine score that refl ...[more]

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