Older adults with higher income or marriage have longer telomeres

Age and Ageing

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 234-239

  Yen, Yung Chieh ^a,b   Lung, For Wey ^c,d  

^a E DA HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Income; Marital status; Neighbourhood; Older people.; Stress; Telomere

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; MALE; MARRIAGE; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TELOMERE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; LEUKOCYTES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TAIWAN; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84874547315     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs122     Document Type: Article

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