TABLE 2.

Spearman rank-order correlation coefficients¹

	tHcy	Folate	Cobalamin	Creatinine
Men (n = 677)
tHcy	1
Folate	−0.462	1
Cobalamin	−0.302,3	0.2172,3	1
Urinary creatinine	−0.03	0.1173,4	0.0913,5	1
Age	0.2182	−0.06	−0.133,4	0.0943,5
Weight	0.0063	0.06	0.03	0.154
Height	−0.02	−0.011	−0.024	0.002
BMI	0.0263	0.0835	0.038	0.182
Education	0.0683	0.052	0.1034	0.030
Women (n = 973)
tHcy	1
Folate	−0.4272	1
Cobalamin	−0.1872	0.1084	1
Urinary creatinine	−0.003	0.011	−0.020	1
Age	0.242	0.02	0.023	−0.056
Weight	−0.1064	0.0884	0.0745	0.1144
Height	−0.018	0.051	0.031	−0.002
BMI	−0.104	0.0715	0.0695	0.1214
Education	−0.1562	0.1322	0.0665	0.0745

¹tHcy; total homocysteine.

²P < 0.0001.

³Significantly different from men, P < 0.05.

⁴P < 0.01.

⁵P < 0.05.