What causes homocysteine to be high?

Causes of high homocysteine are physiological factors and viral hepatitis, coronary atherosclerotic heart disease and other disease factors.

First, physiological factors

smoking, drinking, mood swings and other factors can affect homocysteine metabolism, resulting in high homocysteine.

Second, disease factors

1, viral hepatitis

liver can metabolize homocysteine, if patients are infected by a variety of viruses and viral hepatitis, can lead to liver cell damage, so that homocysteine metabolism abnormal, causing homocysteine to be high.

2, coronary atherosclerotic heart disease

Coronary atherosclerotic heart disease is caused by coronary artery lumen stenosis or occlusion disease, the disease can lead to homocysteine enzyme activity reduced or missing, and then make free, unbound serum homocysteine concentration increased.