The rate of leukocyte telomere shortening predicts mortality from cardiovascular disease in elderly men.

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Published in Aging (Albany NY) on December 04, 2008

Authors

Elissa S Epel1, Sharon Stein Merkin, Richard Cawthon, Elizabeth H Blackburn, Nancy E Adler, Mark J Pletcher, Teresa E Seeman

Author Affiliations

1: University of California, San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA. EEpel@lppi.ucsf.edu

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