Cell aging in relation to stress arousal and cardiovascular disease risk factors.

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Published in Psychoneuroendocrinology on November 17, 2005

Authors

Elissa S Epel1, Jue Lin, Frank H Wilhelm, Owen M Wolkowitz, Richard Cawthon, Nancy E Adler, Christyn Dolbier, Wendy B Mendes, Elizabeth H Blackburn

Author Affiliations

1: UCSF Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco, CA, USA. epele@healthpsych.ucsf.edu

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