Annual ambient black carbon associated with shorter telomeres in elderly men: Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study.

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Published in Environ Health Perspect on November 01, 2010

Authors

John McCracken1, Andrea Baccarelli, Mirjam Hoxha, Laura Dioni, Steve Melly, Brent Coull, Helen Suh, Pantel Vokonas, Joel Schwartz

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Building, 415 West, 401 Park Dr., Boston, MA 02215, USA. jmccrack@hsph.harvard.edu

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