ArticleJournal of aging research2011
Shorter leukocyte telomere length in midlife women with poor sleep quality.
Article in Journal of aging research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04165473 (A Training Program for Developing Social- and Personal Resources and Its Effects on Emotional, Physical and Social Wellbeing in Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 60 papers.
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A Training Program for Developing Social- and Personal Resources and Its Effects on Emotional, Physical and Social Wellbeing in Adults
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60 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Effects of Meditation and Music-Listening on Blood Biomarkers of Cellular Aging and Alzheimer's Disease in Adults with Subjective Cognitive Decline: An Exploratory Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2018Trial
- Effects of Meditation versus Music Listening on Perceived Stress, Mood, Sleep, and Quality of Life in Adults with Early Memory Loss: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2016Trial
- Tired telomeres: Poor global sleep quality, perceived stress, and telomere length in immune cell subsets in obese men and women.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2015Trial
- Maternal biological ageing and telomere attrition across parity, pregnancy, and the postpartum period.Biogerontology · 2026Review
- Exploring Chronic Pain, Immune Dysfunction and Lifestyle: A Focus on T Cell Exhaustion and Senescence.Biomolecules · 2025Review
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- Sleep Duration Polygenic Risk and Phenotype: Associations with Biomarkers of Accelerated Aging in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.International journal of aging & human development · 2025Article
- The association between sleep quality and telomere length: A systematic literature review.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2023Review
- Telomere Attrition in Chronic Kidney Diseases.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Depression, aging, and immunity: implications for COVID-19 vaccine immunogenicity.Immunity & ageing : I & A · 2022Review
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- Cancer-related accelerated ageing and biobehavioural modifiers: a framework for research and clinical care.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2022Review
- Changes in telomere length and serum neurofilament light chain levels in female patients with chronic insomnia disorder.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Article
- Effect of Physical Activity, Smoking, and Sleep on Telomere Length: A Systematic Review of Observational and Intervention Studies.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea as an Acceleration Trigger of Cellular Senescence Processes through Telomere Shortening.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Postpartum sleep loss and accelerated epigenetic aging.Sleep health · 2021Article
- Sleep and Biological Aging: A Short Review.Current opinion in endocrine and metabolic research · 2021Article
- Possible Association of Telomere Length With Sleep Duration. A Preliminary Pilot Study in a Sicilian Cohort with Centenarians.Translational medicine @ UniSa · 2021Article
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Abstract
Background. Accumulating evidence supports leukocyte telomere length (LTL) as a biological marker of cellular aging. Poor sleep is a risk factor for age-related disease; however, the extent to which sleep accounts for variation in LTL is unknown. Methods. The present study examined associations of self-reported sleep duration, onset latency, and subjective quality with LTL in a community-dwelling sample of 245 healthy women in midlife (aged 49-66 years). Results. While sleep duration and onset latency were unrelated to LTL, women reporting poorer sleep quality displayed shorter LTL (r = 0.14, P = 0.03), independent of age, BMI, race, and income (b = 55.48, SE = 27.43, P = 0.04). When analyses were restricted to participants for whom sleep patterns were chronic, poorer sleep quality predicted shorter LTL independent of covariates and perceived psychological stress. Conclusions. This study provides the first evidence that poor sleep quality explains significant variation in LTL, a marker of cellular aging.
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