Cell aging and social disadvantage: Perspectives on mechanisms underlying health disparities from " across the pond"

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1290-1291

  Adler, Nancy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL AGING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL STATUS; TELOMERE; UNITED STATES;

AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 80052726591     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2011.06.013     Document Type: Note

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