Annual Ambient Black Carbon Associated with Shorter Telomeres in Elderly Men: Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study

BACKGROUND: Telomere length reflects biological age and is inversely associated with risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Ambient air pollution is associated with CVD, but its effect on telomere length is unknown. OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether ambient black carbon (BC), a marker for traffic-re...

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Autores principales: McCracken, John, Baccarelli, Andrea, Hoxha, Mirjam, Dioni, Laura, Melly, Steve, Coull, Brent, Suh, Helen, Vokonas, Pantel, Schwartz, Joel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2010
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2974694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21465749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.0901831

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2974694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21465749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.0901831

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