Healthy lifestyle and leukocyte telomere length in U.S. women

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Sun, Qi ^a,b   Shi, Ling ^c   Prescott, Jennifer ^a,b   Chiuve, Stephanie E ^a,b   Hu, Frank B ^a,b   de Vivo, Immaculata ^a,b   Stampfer, Meir J ^a,b   Franks, Paul W ^a,d   Manson, JoAnn E ^a,b   Rexrode, Kathryn M ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; LIFESTYLE; LOW RISK POPULATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; UNITED STATES; LEUKOCYTE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; TELOMERE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TELOMERE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861684482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038374     Document Type: Article

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