Objective To investigate the correlation between serum homocysteine(Hcy) ,folic Acid ,vitamin B12 ,ferritin levels and cerebral infarction ,and provide a new way for prevention and treatment of cerebral infarction .Methods Forty -eight hospital‐ized patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease who were in the neurology ward department of the hospital from April 2012 to November 2014 were enrolled in the study as cerebral infarction group .Meanwhile ,30 healthy elderly patients were recruited ran‐domly as a healthy control group during the same period .There was no significant difference in sex and age between the two groups .People with other diseases were excluded .Hospitalized patients were diagnosed within 24 -72 hours and received CT and MRI scan and other related auxiliary examination after being admitted to hospital .All these patients underwent plasma Hcy ,folic acid ,vitamin B12 ,ferritin level tests which were determined by using chemiluminescence and radioimmunoassay .SPSS17 .0 statistical software was used for statistical analysis ,and the correlation between Hcy ,folic acid ,vitamin B12 ,ferritin and cerebral infarction were analyzed .Results The plasma Hcy and ferritin levels in cerebral infarction group were higher than those in control group ,and the difference is significant(P<0 .05) .Meanwhile ,folic acid ,vitamin B12 levels in cerebral infarction group were lower than those in control group and the difference was significant(P<0 .05) .There were significant differences in levels of Hcy ,folic acid ,vitamin B12 ,ferritin between groups of different cerebral infarction levels .Conclusion Detections of serum Hcy ,folic acid ,vitamin B12 and ferritin could be of important clinical value in cerebral infarction .