Fifteen-year follow-up of association between telomere length and incident cancer and cancer mortality

JAMA

Volumn 306, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-44

  Willeit, Peter ^a   Willeit, Johann ^b   Kloss Brandstätter, Anita ^b   Kronenberg, Florian ^b   Kiechl, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEOPLASM; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; AGED; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELOMERE;

EID: 79960055929     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.901     Document Type: Letter

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