Telomere length and its associations with oxidized-LDL, carotid artery distensibility and smoking

Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite

Volumn 2 E, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1164-1168

  Nawrot, Tim S ^a,b   Staessen, Jan A ^a,c   Holvoet, Paul ^a   Struijker Boudier, Harry A ^d   Schiffers, Paul ^d   Van Bortel, Luc M ^e   Fagard, Robert H ^a   Gardner, Jeffrey P ^f   Kimura, Masayuki ^f   Aviv, Abraham ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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

Author keywords

Smoking; Telomere; Vascular stiffness

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAROTID ARTERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SMOKING; TELOMERE;

ADULT; CAROTID ARTERIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; TELOMERE;

EID: 77957365507     PISSN: 19450494     EISSN: 19450508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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