Hua Zhao, Lixia Han, David Chang, Yuanqing Ye, Jie Shen, Carrie R Daniel, Jian Gu, Wong-Ho Chow, Xifeng Wu
In the current study, we examined cross-sectional associations among social-demographics, lifestyle behaviors, and relative telomere length (RTL) in peripheral blood leukocytes, as well as longitudinal relationships among major chronic diseases, weight gain, and RTL, among 12,792 Mexican Americans aged 20 to 85 years in the Mano-A-Mano, the Mexican American Cohort. As expected, RTL was inversely correlated with age ( ρ =-0.15, ρ <0.001). In the multivariate analysis, we found that RTL was positively correlated with levels of education ( ρ =0...
November 14, 2017: Oncotarget