Leukocyte Telomere Length and Risks of Incident Coronary Heart Disease and Mortality in a Racially Diverse Population of Postmenopausal Women.

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Published in Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol on August 06, 2015

Authors

Cara L Carty1, Charles Kooperberg2, Jingmin Liu2, Megan Herndon2, Themistocles Assimes2, Lifang Hou2, Candyce H Kroenke2, Andrea Z LaCroix2, Masayuki Kimura2, Abraham Aviv2, Alexander P Reiner2

Author Affiliations

1: From the Division of Biostatistics and Study Methodology, Center for Translational Science, George Washington University and Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC (C.L.C.); Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA (C.K., J.L., M.H., A.P.R.); Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA (T.A.); Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (L.H.); Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA (C.H.K.); Department of Epidemiology, University of California, San Diego (A.Z.L.); Center of Development and Aging, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, Newark (M.K., A.A.); and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle (A.P.R.). ccarty@cnmc.org.
2: From the Division of Biostatistics and Study Methodology, Center for Translational Science, George Washington University and Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC (C.L.C.); Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA (C.K., J.L., M.H., A.P.R.); Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA (T.A.); Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (L.H.); Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA (C.H.K.); Department of Epidemiology, University of California, San Diego (A.Z.L.); Center of Development and Aging, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, Newark (M.K., A.A.); and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle (A.P.R.).

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