Homocysteine in Health and Disease. Ralph Carmel and Donald W. Jacobsen, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 510 pp., $150.00. ISBN 0-521653-19-3.

Hyperhomocysteinemia promotes hypercoagulation and, as a vasculotoxin and neurotoxin, is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, peripheral vascular, neuropsychiatric, and fetal morbidity and mortality. These conditions are usually preventable and treatable, according to cause, by vitamin B12, B6, and/or folate. The chapters in this excellent, comprehensive book are authored …