Smoking habits and leukocyte telomere length dynamics among older adults: Results from the ESTHER cohort

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2015, Pages 18-25

  Müezzinler, Aysel ^a,b   Mons, Ute ^a   Dieffenbach, Aida Karina ^a   Butterbach, Katja ^a   Saum, Kai Uwe ^a   Schick, Matthias ^a   Stammer, Hermann ^a   Boukamp, Petra ^a   Holleczek, Bernd ^c   Stegmaier, Christa ^c   Brenner, Hermann ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND CANCER REGISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Ageing; Cigarette smoking; ESTHER; Smoking; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; AGING; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENETICS; LEUKOCYTE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SMOKING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84938939175     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2015.07.002     Document Type: Article

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