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encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine




Disease homocystinuria
Comorbidity C0042373|vascular disease
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PubMedID- 21311765 In assessing whether homocysteine causes ischaemic heart disease, the effect of lowering serum homocysteine in reducing cardiovascular disease risk in patients with homocystinuria is relevant.
PubMedID- 21221810 (doi:10.1007/s10545-010-9146-y) points out a changing clinical spectrum of cystathionine synthase deficiency as patients with a mainly vascular disease pathology are discovered partly as a result of the recent focus on mild hyperhomocysteinaemia as a risk factor.

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