Prenatal undernutrition and leukocyte telomere length in late adulthood: The Dutch famine birth cohort study1

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 655-660

  De Rooij, Susanne R ^a   Van Pelt, Ans M M ^b   Ozanne, Susan E ^d   Korver, Cindy M ^b   Van Daalen, Saskia K M ^b   Painter, Rebecca C ^c   Schwab, Matthias ^e   Viegas, Marcelo H ^f   Roseboom, Tessa J ^a,c  

^a Biostatistics and Bioinformatics ^*  (United States)

^b Centre for Reproductive Medicine   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^f Life Length   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Developmental programming; Late life; Prenatal famine; Telomere

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUNGER; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL HISTORY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL PERIOD; SOCIAL STATUS; TELOMERE; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; GENETICS; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLISM; NETHERLANDS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STARVATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKOCYTES; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STARVATION; TELOMERE;

EID: 84941662735     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.115.112326     Document Type: Article

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