Where you live may make you old: The association between perceived poor neighborhood quality and leukocyte telomere length

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Park, Mijung ^a   Verhoeven, Josine E ^b   Cuijpers, Pim ^c   Reynolds, Charles F ^d   Penninx, Brenda W J H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEIGHBORHOOD; NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; URBANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; CELL AGING; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; LEUKOCYTE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; CELL AGING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939233651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128460     Document Type: Article

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