Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Increased plasma homocysteine levels in patients with multiple sclerosis and depression. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Increased plasma homocysteine levels in patients with multiple sclerosis and depression Nikolaos Triantafyllou1 Maria-Eleftheria Evangelopoulos 1 Vasilios K Kimiskidis2 Evangelia Kararizou1 Fotini Boufidou1 Konstantinos N Fountoulakis3 Melina Siamouli3 Chrysoula Nikolaou1 Constantinos Sfagos1 Nikolaos Vlaikidis2 and Dimitrios Vassilopoulos1 Open Access Address Department of Neurology Eginitio Hospital University of Athens Greece 2Department of Neurology III Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece and 3Department of Psychiatry III Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece Email NikolaosTriantafyllou - Maria-Eleftheria Evangelopoulos - evangelopoulos@ Vasilios K Kimiskidis - kimiskid@ Evangelia Kararizou - ekarariz@ Fotini Boufidou - ecnikol@ Konstantinos N Fountoulakis - kfount@ Melina Siamouli - siamel@ Chrysoula Nikolaou - cnikol@ Constantinos Sfagos - csfagos@ Nikolaos Vlaikidis - evlaikid@ Dimitrios Vassilopoulos - vassilop@ Corresponding author Published 9 September 2008 Received II July 2008 . . nr Accepted 9 September 2008 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008 7 17 doi 1744-859X-7-17 This article is available from http content 7 1 17 2008 Triantafyllou et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The aim of the study was to assess the plasma levels of homocysteine in patients with multiple sclerosis MS and to investigate whether an association with depression exists. Methods Plasma homocysteine Hcy vitamin bi 2 and plasma folate were measured in 65 moderately disabled