Leukocyte telomere length is not associated with BMD, osteoporosis, or fracture in older adults: Results from the health, aging and body composition study

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1531-1536

  Sanders, Jason L ^a,b   Cauley, Jane A ^b   Boudreau, Robert M ^b   Zmuda, Joseph M ^b,c   Strotmeyer, Elsa S ^b   Opresko, Patricia L ^b   Hsueh, Wen Chi ^d,e   Cawthon, Richard M ^f   Li, Rongling ^g   Harris, Tamara B ^h   Kritchevsky, Steven B ⁱ   Newman, Anne B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

ⁱ WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; BMD; Fracture; Osteoporosis; Telomere

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSE; INTERLEUKIN 6;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

AGED; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELOMERE;

EID: 70450131206     PISSN: 08840431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.090318     Document Type: Article

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