Longitudinal versus cross-sectional evaluations of leukocyte telomere length dynamics: age-dependent telomere shortening is the rule.

J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · 2011 · PMC3041470 · PMID 21310811

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Sex, as indicated earlier, had little effect of LTL, but BMI and smoking status did exert discernable effects: BMI explained 0.97–2.05% of the LTL variation (all statistically significant) and smoking status explained 0.64–1.23% (marginally or borderline significance for S1 and S3).

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