Socioeconomic status, health behavior, and leukocyte telomere length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002.
Belinda L. Needham,Nancy E. Adler,Steven E. Gregorich,David H. Rehkopf,Jue Lin,Elizabeth H. Blackburn,Elissa S. Epel +6 more
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It was found that respondents who completed less than a high school education had significantly shorter telomeres than those who graduated from college, and the association between education and LTL was partially mediated by smoking and body mass index but not by drinking or sedentary behavior.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2013-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 275 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey & Cell aging.read more
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Gender and telomere length : systematic review and meta-analysis
Michael P. Gardner,David Bann,Laura Wiley,Rachel Cooper,Rebecca Hardy,Dorothea Nitsch,Carmen Martin-Ruiz,Paul G. Shiels,Avan Aihie Sayer,Michelangela Barbieri,Sofie Bekaert,Claus Bischoff,Angela Brooks-Wilson,Wei Chen,Cyrus Cooper,Kaare Christensen,Tim De Meyer,Ian J. Deary,Geoff Der,Ana V. Diez Roux,Annette L. Fitzpatrick,Anjum Hajat,Julius Halaschek-Wiener,Sarah E. Harris,Steven C. Hunt,Carol Jagger,Hyo Sung Jeon,Robert C. Kaplan,Masayuki Kimura,Peter M. Lansdorp,Changyong Li,Toyoki Maeda,Massimo Mangino,Tim S. Nawrot,Peter M. Nilsson,Katarina Nordfjäll,Giuseppe Paolisso,Fu Ren,Karl Riabowol,Tony Robertson,Göran Roos,Jan A. Staessen,Tim D. Spector,Nelson L.S. Tang,Brad M. Unryn,Pim van der Harst,Jean Woo,Chao Xing,Mohammad E Yadegarfar,Jae Yong Park,Neal S. Young,Diana Kuh,Thomas von Zglinicki,Yoav Ben-Shlomo +53 more
TL;DR: Telomere length is longer in females than males, although this difference was not universally found in studies that did not use Southern blot methods, and further research on explanations for the methodological differences is required.
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Social disadvantage, genetic sensitivity, and children’s telomere length
Colter Mitchell,John Hobcraft,Sara McLanahan,Susan Siegel,Arthur Berg,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Irwin Garfinkel,Daniel A. Notterman,Daniel A. Notterman +8 more
TL;DR: It is reported that exposure to disadvantaged environments is associated with reduced telomere length by age 9 y, and significant associations between low income, low maternal education, unstable family structure, and harsh parenting and TL are documented.
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Race-Ethnicity, Poverty, Urban Stressors, and Telomere Length in a Detroit Community-based Sample:
Arline T. Geronimus,Jay A. Pearson,Erin Linnenbringer,Amy J. Schulz,Angela G. Reyes,Elissa S. Epel,Jue Lin,Elizabeth H. Blackburn +7 more
TL;DR: Findings suggest unobserved heterogeneity bias is an important threat to the validity of estimates of TL differences by race-ethnicity, and point to health impacts of social identity as contingent, the products of structurally rooted biopsychosocial processes.
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Cigarette smoking and telomere length: A systematic review of 84 studies and meta-analysis
TL;DR: Shorter telomere length among ever smokers compared to those who never smoked may imply mechanisms linking tobacco smoke exposure to ageing‐related disease.
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The National Institute on Aging Health Disparities Research Framework.
TL;DR: The NIA Health Disparities Research Framework highlights important factors for health disparities research related to aging, provides an organizing structure for tracking progress, and stimulates opportunities to better delineate causal pathways, aiding in the efforts to address health disparities in the aging population.
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