Educational attainment and mean leukocyte telomere length in women in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC)-Norfolk population study

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 414-418

  Surtees, Paul G ^a   Wainwright, Nicholas W J ^a   Pooley, Karen A ^a   Luben, Robert N ^a   Khaw, Kay Tee ^b   Easton, Douglas F ^a   Dunning, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Epidemiology; Psychological stress; Socioeconomic status; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; NORFOLK ISLAND; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84857194697     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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