Mediterranean diet and telomere length in Nurses' Health study: Population based cohort study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 349, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Crous Bou, Marta ^a,b   Fung, Teresa T ^b,c   Prescott, Jennifer ^a   Julin, Bettina ^a,b   Du, Mengmeng ^a,d   Sun, Qi ^a,b   Rexrode, Kathryn M ^a   Hu, Frank B ^a,b   De Vivo, Immaculata ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATE MEDITERRANEAN DIET SCORE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIETARY COMPLIANCE; FEMALE; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LONGEVITY; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENETICS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; TELOMERE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BIOMARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET RECORDS; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84915759894     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g6674     Document Type: Article

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