Telomere Length and Physical Performance at Older Ages: An Individual Participant Meta-Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Gardner, Michael P ^a   Martin Ruiz, Carmen ^b   Cooper, Rachel ^c   Hardy, Rebecca ^c   Sayer, Avan Aihie ^d   Cooper, Cyrus ^d   Deary, Ian J ^e   Gallacher, John ^f   Harris, Sarah E ^e   Shiels, Paul G ^g   Starr, John M ^e   Kuh, Diana ^c   von Zglinicki, Thomas ^b   Ben Shlomo, Yoav ^a   Alfred, Tamuno ^a   Aucott, Paula ^h   Craig, Leone ⁱ   Day, Ian ^a   Demakakos, Panos ^j   Elliott, Jane ^k   Gale, Catherine ^l   Goodwin, James ^m   Lennox, Alison ⁿ   Martin, Richard ^a   McNeill, Geraldine ⁱ   Mishra, Gita ⁿ   Mulla, Zeinab ⁿ   Murray, Emily ⁿ   Parsons, Sam ^j   Power, Chris ^o   Richards, Marcus ⁿ   Southall, Humphrey ^h   Steptoe, Andrew ^c   Tilling, Kate ^a   Whalley, Lawrence ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^j Institute of Education   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^l Institute of Education ^*  (United Kingdom)

^m MRC HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ MRCUnit for Lifelong Health and Ageing   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CELL AGING; CHAIR RISE SPEED; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; STANDING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH; UNITED KINGDOM; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL FITNESS; POSTURE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; WALKING;

EID: 84880845840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069526     Document Type: Article

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