Social-demographics, health behaviors, and telomere length in the Mexican American Mano a Mano Cohort
| Autor: | Jian Gu, Hua Zhao, David W. Chang, Lixia Han, Carrie R. Daniel, Wong Ho Chow, Jie Shen, Xifeng Wu, Yuanqing Ye |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty Multivariate analysis Mexican americans cancer risk 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Research Paper: Gerotarget (Focus on Aging) Epidemiology social context medicine telomere length 030212 general & internal medicine business.industry Gerotarget Hazard ratio lifestyle factors Oncology Quartile 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Cohort medicine.symptom business Body mass index Weight gain Demography |
| Zdroj: | Oncotarget |
| ISSN: | 1949-2553 |
| Popis: | // Hua Zhao 1 , Lixia Han 1 , David Chang 1 , Yuanqing Ye 1 , Jie Shen 1 , Carrie R. Daniel 1 , Jian Gu 1 , Wong-Ho Chow 1 and Xifeng Wu 1 1 Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA Correspondence to: Hua Zhao, email: // Keywords : telomere length, cancer risk, lifestyle factors, social context, Gerotarget Received : May 10, 2017 Accepted : July 26, 2017 Published : August 03, 2017 Abstract 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 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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