Association between leukocyte telomere shortening and exposure to traffic pollution: a cross-sectional study on traffic officers and indoor office workers

BACKGROUND: Telomere shortening in blood leukocytes has been associated with increased morbidity and death from cardiovascular disease and cancer, but determinants of shortened telomeres, a molecular feature of biological aging, are still largely unidentified. Traffic pollution has been linked with...

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Autores principales: Hoxha, Mirjam, Dioni, Laura, Bonzini, Matteo, Pesatori, Angela Cecilia, Fustinoni, Silvia, Cavallo, Domenico, Carugno, Michele, Albetti, Benedetta, Marinelli, Barbara, Schwartz, Joel, Bertazzi, Pier Alberto, Baccarelli, Andrea
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2761867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19772576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-8-41

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2761867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19772576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-8-41

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