Smoking habits and leukocyte telomere length dynamics among older adults: Results from the ESTHER cohort.

CONCLUSIONS: Our cross-sectional analysis supports suggestions that smoking might contribute to shortening of LTL but this relationship could not be shown longitudinally. The overall rather small effect sizes observed for smoking-related variables suggest that LTL reflects smoking-related health hazards only to a very limited extent. PMID: 26255046 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Experimental Gerontology - August 6, 2015 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Müezzinler A, Mons U, Dieffenbach AK, Butterbach K, Saum KU, Schick M, Stammer H, Boukamp P, Holleczek B, Stegmaier C, Brenner H Tags: Exp Gerontol Source Type: research