Longer leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula: A population-based study

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1266-1273

  Rehkopf, David H ^a   Dow, William H ^b   Rosero Bixby, Luis ^c   Lin, Jue ^d   Epel, Elissa S ^d   Blackburn, Elizabeth H ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Biomarkers; Costa Rica; Longevity; Socioeconomic; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEUKOCYTE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NICOYA REGION; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

AGING; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BMI; BODY MASS INDEX; BP; COSTA RICA; COSTA RICAN STUDY ON LONGEVITY AND HEALTHY AGING; CRELES; GENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GWAS; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; LONGEVITY; LTL; SOCIOECONOMIC; TELOMERE LENGTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COSTA RICA; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LONGEVITY; MALE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84884152924     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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