Shorter telomere length is linked to brain atrophy and white matter hyperintensities

Age and Ageing

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 212-217

  Wikgren, Mikael ^a   Karlsson, Thomas ^b   Söderlund, Hedvig ^c   Nordin, Annelie ^a   Roos, Göran ^a   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^d   Adolfsson, Rolf ^a   Norrback, Karl Fredrik ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain atrophy; Older people; Telomere length; White matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBCORTEX; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER LESION;

BRAIN ATROPHY; OLDER PEOPLE; TELOMERE LENGTH; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITIES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ATROPHY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84896736202     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/aft172     Document Type: Article

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