Folate Supplementation in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients with Normal Erythrocyte Folate: Effect on Plasma Homocysteine
| Autor: | F. Bamonti-Catena, Silvia Finazzi, Michela De Franceschi, Maria Antonietta Fasano, Cristina Novembrino, Patrizia Colucci, Amedeo F. De Vecchi, Cristina Patrosso |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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congenital hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities medicine.medical_specialty Hyperhomocysteinemia Erythrocytes Homocysteine medicine.medical_treatment Down-Regulation macromolecular substances Peritoneal dialysis chemistry.chemical_compound Folic Acid Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders Internal medicine medicine Humans Vitamin B12 Cyanocobalamin Chemotherapy Depression business.industry nutritional and metabolic diseases Folate supplementation Middle Aged medicine.disease Anorexia Vitamin B 12 Endocrinology chemistry Female Kidney Diseases business Peritoneal Dialysis Kidney disease |
| Zdroj: | Nephron. 89:297-302 |
| ISSN: | 2235-3186 1660-8151 |
| DOI: | 10.1159/000046089 |
| Popis: | The possible role of folate supplementation in reducing hyperhomocysteinemia in dialysis patients has been reported in several recent papers. However, scant data are available for peritoneal dialysis patients; besides, none of these studies investigated either the role of intraerythrocyte folate concentration or the presence of side effects caused by folate administration. Sixty-six peritoneal dialysis patients with hyperhomocysteinemia (>15 µmol/l) and normal folate status (as assessed by erythrocyte folate level >600 nmol/l) were randomly allocated to receive either oral folate (5 mg/day) or no vitamin supplementation. After 2 months of therapy, patients were requested to answer a questionnaire investigating the occurrence of symptoms possibly related to folate supplementation. Twenty-nine treated patients and 30 untreated controls completed the study. In the treated patients, serum and erythrocyte folate increased significantly (p < 0.0001) (respectively from 10.6 ± 4.9 to 237 ± 231 nmol/l and from 1,201 ± 297 to 2,881 ± 294 nmol/l) to levels at the uppermost limit of detection by laboratory methods. Serum vitamin B12 levels did not change. Plasma homocysteine levels decreased from 54 ± 32 to 23 ± 14 µmol/l after folate supplementation and remained unchanged in the control group. After 4 months of folate therapy, homocysteine concentration was within the normal range in 5 patients (17%) and below 30 µmol/l in the other 21 (72%). Folate therapy resulted in a decrease in homocysteine of more than 50% in 45% of the patients and decrease of more than 20% in a further 38%. No significant symptoms were reported. Thus, serum and erythrocyte folate increase confirms that normal folate levels are inadequate in dialysis patients, even if serum and erythrocyte levels before folate supplementation cannot predict the effect on homocysteine plasma levels. |
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