Leukocyte telomere length dynamics in women and men: Menopause vs age effects

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1688-1695

  Dalgård, Christine ^a   Benetos, Athanase ^b,c,d   Verhulst, Simon ^e   Labat, Carlos ^c,d   Kark, Jeremy D ^f   Christensen, Kaare ^a,g   Kimura, Masayuki ^h   Kyvik, Kirsten Ohm ^a   Aviv, Abraham ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^c INSERM UMR S 1116 University of Lorraine   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^h University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

men; menopause; Telomeres; women

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

AGE STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; GROWTH RESPONSE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECELERATION; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENOPAUSE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; ADOLESCENT; AGING; BIOMETRY; DENMARK; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TELOMERE; TWINS; YOUNG ADULT;

DENMARK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BIOMETRY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TELOMERE; TWINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84952894274     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyv165     Document Type: Article

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