Short Telomeres, but Not Telomere Attrition Rates, Are Associated with Carotid Atherosclerosis

Hypertension

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 420-425

  Toupance, Simon ^a   Labat, Carlos ^a   Temmar, Mohamed ^c   Rossignol, Patrick ^a,b   Kimura, Masayuki ^d   Aviv, Abraham ^d   Benetos, Athanase ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c Telomere Cardiology Center   (Algeria)

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

Author keywords

adult; atherosclerosis; follow up studies; telomere; telomere shortening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FRANCE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 85021129820     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.117.09354     Document Type: Article

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