Mediterranean Diet, Telomere Maintenance and Health Status among Elderly

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Boccardi, Virginia ^a   Esposito, Antonietta ^a   Rizzo, Maria Rosaria ^a   Marfella, Raffaele ^a   Barbieri, Michelangela ^a   Paolisso, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; ELDERLY CARE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; AGE; CAUCASIAN; GENETICS; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; RISK FACTOR; TELOMERE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; RISK FACTORS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84876979340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062781     Document Type: Article

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