Short Sleep Duration Is Associated with Shorter Telomere Length in Healthy Men: Findings from the Whitehall II Cohort Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Jackowska, Marta ^a   Hamer, Mark ^a   Carvalho, Livia A ^a   Erusalimsky, Jorge D ^b   Butcher, Lee ^b   Steptoe, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CYNICAL HOSTILITY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DURATION; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SMOKING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84868125249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047292     Document Type: Article

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