I have been asking some of the General Practitioners I met recently on the cost of checking for homocysteine levels but the GPs I met all brushed off the importance of checking for homocysteine levels and says that the check for cholesterol levels is more essential.
I agree that checking for cholesterol levels and in my opinion, the check of the Total Cholesterol ratio and HDL cholesterol level is very important. However, the check for homocysteine levels cannot be ignored because there have been surveys that a huge percentage of the people who died from heart attack or stroke did not have high levels of cholesterol.
An article from American Heart Association has written about Homocysteine, Folic Acid and Cardiovascular Diseases and how homocysteine may promote atherosclerosis (though a casual link hasn’t been established).
Since it is also a blood test that can be done, why not just include the test of homocysteine levels the next time when you are doing your blood test?
written by Lower Cholesterol