Association of relative telomere length with cardiovascular disease in a large chronic kidney disease cohort: The GCKD study

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 529-534

  Raschenberger, Julia ^a   Kollerits, Barbara ^a   Titze, Stephanie ^b   Köttgen, Anna ^c   Bärthlein, Barbara ^b   Ekici, Arif B ^b   Forer, Lukas ^a   Schönherr, Sebastian ^a   Weissensteiner, Hansi ^a   Haun, Margot ^a   Wanner, Christoph ^d   Eckardt, Kai Uwe ^b   Kronenberg, Florian ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Chronic kidney disease; High risk population; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY SURGERY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELATIVE TELOMERE LENGTH; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; AGED; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPLICATION; GENETICS; GERMANY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTOR; TELOMERE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; GERMANY; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TELOMERE;

EID: 84939832602     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2015.08.020     Document Type: Article

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