Short Telomere Load, Telomere Length, and Subclinical Atherosclerosis: The PESA Study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 67, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 2467-2476

  Fernández Alvira, Juan M ^a   Fuster, Valentin ^a,b   Dorado, Beatriz ^a   Soberón, Nora ^c   Flores, Ignacio ^a   Gallardo, Mercedes ^c   Pocock, Stuart ^a,d   Blasco, María A ^c   Andrés, Vicente ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme   (Spain)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cardiovascular disease; leukocyte telomere length; short telomeres

Indexed keywords

OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; LEUCOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; AGE; BLOOD; CAROTID ARTERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMORAL ARTERY; GENETICS; LEUKOCYTE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKOCYTES; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84969920349     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.03.530     Document Type: Article

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