Blood cell telomere length among patients with an isolated popliteal artery aneurysm and those with multiple aneurysm disease

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 946-950

  Bjorck M ^a   Ravn, H ^a,b   Nilsson, T K ^c   Wanhainen, A ^a   Nilsson, P M ^d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Eksjo Hospital   (Sweden)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Aneurysm abdominal aortic; Aneurysm popliteal artery; Atherosclerosis; Telomere length; Vascular ageing

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPLITEAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELATIVE TELOMERE LENGTH; TELOMERE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEURYSM; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; ILIAC ANEURYSM; MALE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGISTRIES; SWEDEN; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 82955163170     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.09.034     Document Type: Article

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