Telomere length, vitamin B12 and mortality in persons undergoing coronary angiography: the Ludwigshafen risk and cardiovascular health study.

CONCLUSIONS: Mortality, stratified according to B12 and RTL, seems to be driven by different mechanisms. In LB12 and HB12 subjects, mortality and accelerated telomere shortening might be driven by homocysteine and inflammation, respectively.
PMID: 31492825 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Aging - September 5, 2019 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Pusceddu I, Herrmann W, Kleber ME, Scharnagl H, März W, Herrmann M Tags: Aging (Albany NY) Source Type: research