The Association between Intelligence and Telomere Length: A Longitudinal Population Based Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Kingma, Eva M ^a   de Jonge, Peter ^a   van der Harst, Pim ^a   Ormel, Johan ^a   Rosmalen, Judith G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED APTITUDE TEST BATTERY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCOME; INTELLIGENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE; LIFESTYLE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; TELOMERE;

AGE FACTORS; CELL AGING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LEUKOCYTES; LIFE STYLE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84869133311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049356     Document Type: Article

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