Predicting survival from telomere length versus conventional predictors: A multinational population-based cohort study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Glei, Dana A ^a   Goldman, Noreen ^b   Risques, Rosa Ana ^c   Rehkopf, David H ^d   Dow, William H ^e   Rosero Bixby, Luis ^f   Weinstein, Maxine ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF EVALUATION; SMOKING HABIT; SURVIVAL; TAIWAN; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; TELOMERE; UNITED STATES;

COHORT STUDIES; COSTA RICA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TAIWAN; TELOMERE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962839069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152486     Document Type: Article

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