Published in J Am Coll Cardiol on March 21, 2007
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Leukocyte telomeres are longer in African Americans than in whites: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study and the Bogalusa Heart Study. Aging Cell (2008) 3.24
Leukocyte telomere dynamics: longitudinal findings among young adults in the Bogalusa Heart Study. Am J Epidemiol (2008) 2.86
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Higher serum vitamin D concentrations are associated with longer leukocyte telomere length in women. Am J Clin Nutr (2007) 1.47
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Leukocyte telomere length is associated with cognitive performance in healthy women. Neurobiol Aging (2008) 1.36
Telomeres, lifestyle, cancer, and aging. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care (2011) 1.35
Dietary patterns, food groups, and telomere length in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Am J Clin Nutr (2008) 1.35
A natural product telomerase activator as part of a health maintenance program. Rejuvenation Res (2010) 1.30
Telomeres and immunological diseases of aging. Gerontology (2009) 1.22
Frailty in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease: Why, When, and How to Measure. Curr Cardiovasc Risk Rep (2011) 1.19
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Annual ambient black carbon associated with shorter telomeres in elderly men: Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study. Environ Health Perspect (2010) 1.07
Association between leukocyte telomere shortening and exposure to traffic pollution: a cross-sectional study on traffic officers and indoor office workers. Environ Health (2009) 1.07
Association of leukocyte telomere length with echocardiographic left ventricular mass: the Framingham heart study. Circulation (2009) 1.04
Relative telomere length and cognitive decline in the Nurses' Health Study. Neurosci Lett (2011) 1.04
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Physical activity and telomere biology: exploring the link with aging-related disease prevention. J Aging Res (2011) 0.98
Exploring potential sources of differential vulnerability and susceptibility in risk from environmental hazards to expand the scope of risk assessment. Am J Public Health (2011) 0.98
Telomere length of circulating leukocyte subpopulations and buccal cells in patients with ischemic heart failure and their offspring. PLoS One (2011) 0.97
Leukocyte telomere length and plasma catestatin and myeloid-related protein 8/14 concentrations in children with obstructive sleep apnea. Chest (2010) 0.97
Endothelial progenitor cells enter the aging arena. Front Physiol (2012) 0.94
Physical fitness and telomere length in patients with coronary heart disease: findings from the Heart and Soul Study. PLoS One (2011) 0.92
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Endogenous oxidative stress prevents telomerase-dependent immortalization of human endothelial cells. Mech Ageing Dev (2010) 0.88
Decreased leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is associated with stroke but unlikely to be causative. PLoS One (2013) 0.86
Telomeres shorten in response to oxidative stress in mouse skeletal muscle fibers. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2014) 0.86
Renal dysfunction is associated with shorter telomere length in heart failure. Clin Res Cardiol (2009) 0.85
Measurement of telomere length: a new assay using QuantiGene chemistry on a Luminex platform. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (2014) 0.85
On cross-sectional associations of leukocyte telomere length with cardiac systolic, diastolic and vascular function: the Asklepios study. PLoS One (2014) 0.85
Leukocyte Telomere Length in Relation to 17 Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease Risk: A Cross-Sectional Study of US Adults. PLoS Med (2016) 0.84
Search for a correlation between telomere length and severity of retinitis pigmentosa due to the dominant rhodopsin Pro23His mutation. Mol Vis (2009) 0.83
Biologic function and clinical potential of telomerase and associated proteins in cardiovascular tissue repair and regeneration. Eur Heart J (2010) 0.83
The case for statin therapy in chronic heart failure. Clin Res Cardiol (2007) 0.81
Biology of telomeres: importance in etiology of esophageal cancer and as therapeutic target. Transl Res (2013) 0.81
Mean telomere length and risk of incident venous thromboembolism: a prospective, nested case-control approach. Clin Chim Acta (2009) 0.81
Sequence variation in telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) as a determinant of risk of cardiovascular disease: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. BMC Med Genet (2015) 0.81
Telomeres and Telomerase in Cardiovascular Diseases. Genes (Basel) (2016) 0.81
Telomere Length Is Not Related to Established Cardiovascular Risk Factors but Does Correlate with Red and White Blood Cell Counts in a German Blood Donor Population. PLoS One (2015) 0.80
The effect of telomere length, a marker of biological aging, on bone mineral density in elderly population. Osteoporos Int (2009) 0.80
Prevention of heart failure in the elderly: when, where and how to begin? Heart Fail Rev (2012) 0.79
Leukocyte telomere length and left ventricular function after acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: data from the glycometabolic intervention as adjunct to primary coronary intervention in ST elevation myocardial infarction (GIPS-III) trial. Clin Res Cardiol (2015) 0.79
Telomere length and the risk of atrial fibrillation: insights into the role of biological versus chronological aging. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol (2014) 0.78
Renal failure induces telomere shortening in the rat heart. Neth Heart J (2009) 0.76
Telomere length and adrenergic-induced left ventricular dilatation and systolic chamber dysfunction in rats. Eur J Appl Physiol (2013) 0.76
Telomere dynamics during aging in polygenic left ventricular hypertrophy. Physiol Genomics (2015) 0.75
Effect of aging on stem cells. World J Exp Med (2017) 0.75
Telomere length and incident atrial fibrillation - data of the PREVEND cohort. PLoS One (2017) 0.75
Chronic Inflammation in Immune Aging: Role of Pattern Recognition Receptor Crosstalk with the Telomere Complex? Front Immunol (2017) 0.75
Evaluation of telomere length in human cardiac tissues using cardiac quantitative FISH. Nat Protoc (2017) 0.75
Effect of pre-analytic variables on the reproducibility of qPCR relative telomere length measurement. PLoS One (2017) 0.75
Shorter leukocyte telomere length is associated with higher risk of infections: a prospective study of 75,309 individuals from the general population. Haematologica (2017) 0.75
Cardiomyocyte-Specific Telomere Shortening is a Distinct Signature of Heart Failure in Humans. J Am Heart Assoc (2017) 0.75
Cardioprotective Effects of SIRT6 in a Mouse Model of Transverse Aortic Constriction-Induced Heart Failure. Front Physiol (2017) 0.75
Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids. Nature (2010) 28.21
Genomewide association analysis of coronary artery disease. N Engl J Med (2007) 24.38
Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index. Nat Genet (2010) 23.08
Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation. Nat Genet (2008) 22.35
Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height. Nature (2010) 20.01
Genome-wide association analysis identifies 20 loci that influence adult height. Nat Genet (2008) 16.92
Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity. Nat Genet (2008) 15.94
Eplerenone in patients with systolic heart failure and mild symptoms. N Engl J Med (2010) 14.43
Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease. Nat Genet (2011) 13.25
Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Nature (2011) 13.25
Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants. Nat Genet (2007) 12.62
Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure. Nat Genet (2009) 12.44
Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls. Nature (2010) 12.27
Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants. Nat Genet (2009) 12.19
Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: a mendelian randomisation study. Lancet (2012) 12.10
Meta-analysis and imputation refines the association of 15q25 with smoking quantity. Nat Genet (2010) 8.55
Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease. Nat Genet (2012) 7.59
Rosuvastatin in older patients with systolic heart failure. N Engl J Med (2007) 7.55
Urinary albumin excretion predicts cardiovascular and noncardiovascular mortality in general population. Circulation (2002) 7.25
Concept, design and implementation of a cardiovascular gene-centric 50 k SNP array for large-scale genomic association studies. PLoS One (2008) 7.16
Sequence variants at CHRNB3-CHRNA6 and CYP2A6 affect smoking behavior. Nat Genet (2010) 6.49
Serelaxin, recombinant human relaxin-2, for treatment of acute heart failure (RELAX-AHF): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet (2012) 6.42
A genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 22 loci associated with eight hematological parameters in the HaemGen consortium. Nat Genet (2009) 6.31
Prognostic association of depression following myocardial infarction with mortality and cardiovascular events: a meta-analysis. Psychosom Med (2004) 6.00
Loss-of-function mutations in APOC3, triglycerides, and coronary disease. N Engl J Med (2014) 5.47
Genetic Loci associated with C-reactive protein levels and risk of coronary heart disease. JAMA (2009) 5.32
Repeated replication and a prospective meta-analysis of the association between chromosome 9p21.3 and coronary artery disease. Circulation (2008) 5.20
Inheritance of coronary artery disease in men: an analysis of the role of the Y chromosome. Lancet (2012) 5.16
New susceptibility locus for coronary artery disease on chromosome 3q22.3. Nat Genet (2009) 5.12
Treatment of anemia with darbepoetin alfa in systolic heart failure. N Engl J Med (2013) 4.67
Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies. Lancet (2012) 4.63
Genome-wide haplotype association study identifies the SLC22A3-LPAL2-LPA gene cluster as a risk locus for coronary artery disease. Nat Genet (2009) 4.63
Trastuzumab-associated cardiac adverse effects in the herceptin adjuvant trial. J Clin Oncol (2007) 4.19
Genetic variants influencing circulating lipid levels and risk of coronary artery disease. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2010) 4.08
Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of peripartum cardiomyopathy: a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on peripartum cardiomyopathy. Eur J Heart Fail (2010) 3.90
Coding Variation in ANGPTL4, LPL, and SVEP1 and the Risk of Coronary Disease. N Engl J Med (2016) 3.88
Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease. Nat Genet (2013) 3.87
Renal function as a predictor of outcome in a broad spectrum of patients with heart failure. Circulation (2006) 3.85
Common variants in 22 loci are associated with QRS duration and cardiac ventricular conduction. Nat Genet (2010) 3.55
B-type natriuretic peptide and prognosis in heart failure patients with preserved and reduced ejection fraction. J Am Coll Cardiol (2013) 3.54
Eplerenone reduces mortality 30 days after randomization following acute myocardial infarction in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol (2005) 3.53
Prognostic value of galectin-3, a novel marker of fibrosis, in patients with chronic heart failure: data from the DEAL-HF study. Clin Res Cardiol (2010) 3.50
Digoxin reduces 30-day all-cause hospital admission in older patients with chronic systolic heart failure. Am J Med (2013) 3.46
Plasma concentration of amino-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in chronic heart failure: prediction of cardiovascular events and interaction with the effects of rosuvastatin: a report from CORONA (Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Trial in Heart Failure). J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 3.32
Bayesian refinement of association signals for 14 loci in 3 common diseases. Nat Genet (2012) 3.31
Increased central venous pressure is associated with impaired renal function and mortality in a broad spectrum of patients with cardiovascular disease. J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 3.31
Angiotensin-(1-7) attenuates the development of heart failure after myocardial infarction in rats. Circulation (2002) 3.27
Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture. Nat Genet (2013) 3.25
Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals. PLoS Genet (2012) 3.21
Design of the Coronary ARtery DIsease Genome-Wide Replication And Meta-Analysis (CARDIoGRAM) Study: A Genome-wide association meta-analysis involving more than 22 000 cases and 60 000 controls. Circ Cardiovasc Genet (2010) 3.15
New gene functions in megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation. Nature (2011) 3.14
Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations. Nat Genet (2012) 3.04
Common variants near TERC are associated with mean telomere length. Nat Genet (2010) 2.98
Novel association in chromosome 4q27 region with rheumatoid arthritis and confirmation of type 1 diabetes point to a general risk locus for autoimmune diseases. Am J Hum Genet (2007) 2.89
Sex-stratified genome-wide association studies including 270,000 individuals show sexual dimorphism in genetic loci for anthropometric traits. PLoS Genet (2013) 2.83
Compliance in heart failure patients: the importance of knowledge and beliefs. Eur Heart J (2005) 2.81
Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell. Nature (2012) 2.77
Worsening renal function and prognosis in heart failure: systematic review and meta-analysis. J Card Fail (2007) 2.77
Adherence to guidelines is a predictor of outcome in chronic heart failure: the MAHLER survey. Eur Heart J (2005) 2.74
Assessing and grading congestion in acute heart failure: a scientific statement from the acute heart failure committee of the heart failure association of the European Society of Cardiology and endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Eur J Heart Fail (2010) 2.64
Anemia and mortality in heart failure patients a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol (2008) 2.59
A single dose of erythropoietin in ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Eur Heart J (2010) 2.52
Longer-term assessment of trastuzumab-related cardiac adverse events in the Herceptin Adjuvant (HERA) trial. J Clin Oncol (2010) 2.51
The effect of statins on urinary albumin excretion and glomerular filtration rate: results from both a randomized clinical trial and an observational cohort study. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2006) 2.50
Renal impairment, worsening renal function, and outcome in patients with heart failure: an updated meta-analysis. Eur Heart J (2013) 2.45
Ultrasound and microbubble-targeted delivery of macromolecules is regulated by induction of endocytosis and pore formation. Circ Res (2009) 2.41
Peripartum cardiomyopathy as a part of familial dilated cardiomyopathy. Circulation (2010) 2.41
Symptom dimensions of depression following myocardial infarction and their relationship with somatic health status and cardiovascular prognosis. Am J Psychiatry (2006) 2.41
Lifelong reduction of LDL-cholesterol related to a common variant in the LDL-receptor gene decreases the risk of coronary artery disease--a Mendelian Randomisation study. PLoS One (2008) 2.37
Drawbacks and prognostic value of formulas estimating renal function in patients with chronic heart failure and systolic dysfunction. Circulation (2006) 2.35
Incidence and epidemiology of new onset heart failure with preserved vs. reduced ejection fraction in a community-based cohort: 11-year follow-up of PREVEND. Eur Heart J (2013) 2.32