Jue Lin

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that psychological stress--both perceived stress and chronicity of stress--is significantly associated with higher oxidative stress, lower telomerase activity, and shorter telomere length, in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from healthy premenopausal women.

TL;DR: These and other recent findings highlight both causal and potentiating roles for telomere attrition in human diseases, especially in diseases of human aging and in some aging-related processes.

TL;DR: Low leukocyte telomerase constitutes an early marker of CVD risk, possibly preceding shortened telomeres, that results in part from chronic stress arousal, and may implicate telomersase as a novel and important mediator of the effects of psychological stress on physical health and disease.

TL;DR: Comprehensive lifestyle changes significantly increase telomerase activity and consequently telomere maintenance capacity in human immune-system cells, and this is reported as a significant association rather than inferring causation.

TL;DR: The data suggest that increases in perceived control and decreases in negative affectivity contributed to an increase in telomerase activity, with implications for telomere length and immune cell longevity.