Mediterranean diet and leukocyte telomere length in a multi-ethnic elderly population

Age

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Gu, Yian ^a   Honig, Lawrence S ^a,b,c   Schupf, Nicole ^a,b,c,d   Lee, Joseph H ^a,b,d   Luchsinger, Jose A ^c,d   Stern, Yaakov ^a,b,c   Scarmeas, Nikolaos ^a,b,c,e  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aging; Diet; Telomere

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CAUCASIAN; CEREAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAIRY PRODUCT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; GENE SEQUENCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LEISURE; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SEX; SMOKING; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; LIFESTYLE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84924560002     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-015-9758-0     Document Type: Article

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