FOLATE's ROLE IN PREVENTING CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FOLATE's ROLE IN PREVENTING CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE will be the subject of an upcoming article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Irwin Rosenberg, MD, Tufts University, reported at a Nov. 22 Office of Science and Technology Policy meeting in Washington, D.C. Presenting results from a recent epidemiological study on the elderly cohort of the Framingham Heart Study, Rosenberg noted that data will be "published in the NEJM shortly" demonstrating that increased folate in the diet lowers levels of homocysteine and subsequently reduces the incidence of "stenosis of the carotid arteries."