Sports and exercise at different ages and leukocyte telomere length in later life - Data from the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Saßenroth, Denise ^a   Meyer, Antje ^c   Salewsky, Bastian ^c   Kroh, Martin ^a,b   Norman, Kristina ^c   Steinhagen Thiessen, Elisabeth ^c   Demuth, Ilja ^c  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELOMERE; AGE; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BERLIN; COHORT STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPORTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84956637802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142131     Document Type: Article

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