High phobic anxiety is related to lower leukocyte Telomere length in women

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Okereke, Olivia I ^a,b   Prescott, Jennifer ^a,b   Wong, Jason Y Y ^a,b   Han, Jiali ^a,b   Rexrode, Kathryn M ^a   de Vivo, Immaculata ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATERNAL AGE; PHOBIA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RATING SCALE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOKING; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LEUKOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; PATERNAL AGE; SMOKING; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84863814764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040516     Document Type: Article

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