Leukocyte telomere length and age at menopause

Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 139-146

  Gray, Kristen E ^a   Schiff, Melissa A ^a   Fitzpatrick, Annette L ^a   Kimura, Masayuki ^b   Aviv, Abraham ^b   Starr, Jacqueline R ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

^c FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; LEUKOCYTE; MENOPAUSE; NULLIPARA; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LINEAR MODELS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SMOKING; TELOMERE;

EID: 84890034351     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000017     Document Type: Article

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