Telomere length and mortality: A study of leukocytes in elderly danish twins

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 167, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 799-806

  Kimura, Masayuki ^a   Hjelmborg, Jacob V B ^b   Gardner, Jeffrey P ^a   Bathum, Lise ^b   Brimacombe, Michael ^a   Lu, Xiaobin ^a   Christiansen, Lene ^b   Vaupel, James W ^c   Aviv, Abraham ^a   Christensen, Kaare ^b  

^a University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aged; Leukocytes; Mortality; Survival analysis; Telomere; Twins

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; BLOOD; CHROMOSOME; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LIFESPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TELOMERE; TWINS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TELOMERE;

EID: 41349113994     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwm380     Document Type: Article

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