Employment and work schedule are related to telomere length in women

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 582-589

  Parks, Christine G ^a   DeRoo, L A ^a   Miller, D B ^b   McCanlies, E C ^b   Cawthon, R M ^c   Sandler, D P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CELL DNA; STRESS HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BODY MASS; CELL AGING; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEUKOCYTE; LIVE BIRTH; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENOPAUSE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP; SMOKING; STRESS; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TELOMERE; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TELOMERE; TIME FACTORS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 79960082375     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.063214     Document Type: Article

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