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Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 701-705 , April 2007

Low vitamin B6, and not plasma homocysteine concentration, as risk factor for abdominal aortic aneurysm: A retrospective case–control study

Anita C. Peeters, MD
- Department of Endocrinology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Bart A. van Landeghem, PhD
- Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Sietze J. Graafsma, PhD, MD
- Department of Internal Medicine, TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Steef E. Kranendonk, PhD, MD
- Department of Surgery, TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Ad R. Hermus, PhD, MD
- Department of Endocrinology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Henk J. Blom, PhD
- Department of Paediatrics, Laboratory of Paediatrics and Neurology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Martin den Heijer, PhD, MD
- Department of Endocrinology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Reprint requests: Martin den Heijer, MD, PhD, Department of Endocrinology (471), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, PO-Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Received 16 October 2006 ,Accepted 8 December 2006.

Dot plot of vitamin B6 concentration and distribution in quartiles, for controls and cases with abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Dot plot of vitamin B6 concentration and distribution in quartiles, for controls and cases with abdominal aortic aneurysm.
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