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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2014 Apr 28;235(1):94–101. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.04.010

Table 3.

Correlations between plasma homocysteine, dietary B vitamins, betaine, and choline, adjusted for age and total energy at baseline (1990 women, 1994 men).

Plasma homocysteine Folate (B9) Vitamin B6 Vitamin B12 Riboflavin (B2) Betaine Choline
Plasma homocysteine -0.31 -0.32 -0.21 -0.31 -0.18 -0.09
Folate (B9) -0.25 0.77 0.64 0.74 0.19 0.23
Vitamin B6 -0.23 0.78 0.62 0.85 0.13 0.28
Vitamin B12 -0.19 0.60 0.60 0.73 0.03 0.35
Riboflavin (B2) -0.25 0.73 0.88 0.68 0.07 0.33
Betaine -0.15 0.20 0.14 0.01 0.11 0.02
Choline -0.04 0.07 0.10 0.33 0.17 -0.06

Bold coefficients are significant (p <0.05).

Unshaded represent women in the NHS (n=567) and shaded correlations represent men in the HPFS (n = 571).