Leukocyte telomere length and risks of incident coronary heart disease and mortality in a racially diverse population of postmenopausal women

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2225-2231

  Carty, Cara L ^a   Kooperberg, Charles ^b   Liu, Jingmin ^b   Herndon, Megan ^b   Assimes, Themistocles ^c   Hou, Lifang ^d   Kroenke, Candyce H ^e   LaCroix, Andrea Z ^f   Kimura, Masayuki ^g   Aviv, Abraham ^g   Reiner, Alexander P ^b,h  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Coronary disease; Mortality; Risk factors; Telomere; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY DISEASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TELOMERE;

EID: 84942258180     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: 15244636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.115.305838     Document Type: Article

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