Perioperative Medicine

Table 5 Association among serum homocysteine, folate, vitamin B₁₂ status and MTHFR SNPs (n = 175)

From: Association between preoperative serum homocysteine and delayed neurocognitive recovery after non-cardiac surgery in elderly patients: a prospective observational study

	Homocysteine	Folate	Vitamin B₁₂
Parameters
Homocysteine	–	− 0.360^‡	− 0.258^†
Folate	− 0.360^‡	–	+ 0.363^‡
Vitamin B₁₂	− 0.258^†	+ 0.363^‡	–
MTHFR SNPs
rs1801133	0.253^†	− 0.268^‡	− 0.020
rs1801131	− 0.193*	0.107	− 0.060

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients are presented to describe the association between variables
Abbreviations: MTHFR methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase
*P < 0.05
^†P < 0.01
^‡P < 0.001

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