ArticleEuropean journal of nutrition2017
No association between blood telomere length and longitudinally assessed diet or adiposity in a young adult Filipino population.
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- The Impact of Foods, Nutrients, or Dietary Patterns on Telomere Length in Childhood and Adolescence: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Impact of Nutrition on Telomere Health: Systematic Review of Observational Cohort Studies and Randomized Clinical Trials.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Pooled it
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- Longitudinal Association of Telomere Dynamics with Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in Young Children.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Mediation Effect of Platelet Traits on Associations of Central Obesity with Aging Biomarkers in Rural Adults of Henan, China.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Telomere Length in a Random Sample of 5448 U.S. Adults.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Association study of leukocyte telomere length and genetic polymorphism within hTERT promoter with type 2 diabetes in Bangladeshi population.Molecular biology reports · 2021Article
- Testing for paternal influences on offspring telomere length in a human cohort in the Philippines.American journal of physical anthropology · 2020Article
- Early life growth and adult telomere length in a Filipino cohort study.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2019Article
- Older paternal ages and grandpaternal ages at conception predict longer telomeres in human descendants.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Years of caregiving for chronically ill and disabled family members is not associated with telomere length in the Philippines.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2019Article
- Lifetime socioeconomic status and early life microbial environments predict adult blood telomere length in the Philippines.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2018Article
- Possible association of the TERT promoter polymorphisms rs2735940, rs7712562 and rs2853669 with diabetes mellitus in obese elderly Polish population: results from the national PolSenior study.Journal of applied genetics · 2018Article
- Reproduction predicts shorter telomeres and epigenetic age acceleration among young adult women.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Early life infection, but not breastfeeding, predicts adult blood telomere lengths in the Philippines.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2017Article
- Early life adiposity and telomere length across the life course: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Wellcome open research · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposeTelomeres, DNA-protein structures that cap and protect chromosomes, are thought to shorten more rapidly when exposed to chronic inflammation and oxidative stress. Diet and nutritional status may be a source of inflammation and oxidative stress. However, relationships between telomere length (TL) and diet or adiposity have primarily been studied cross-sectionally among older, overweight/obese populations and yielded inconsistent results. Little is known about the relationship between diet or body composition and TL among younger, low- to normal-weight populations. It also remains unclear how cumulative exposure to a specific diet or body composition during the years of growth and development, when telomere attrition is most rapid, may be related to TL in adulthood.
methodsIn a sample of 1459 young adult Filipinos, we assessed the relationship between blood TL at ages 20.8-22.5 and measures of BMI z-score, waist circumference, and diet collected between the ages of 8.5 and 22.5. TL was measured using monochrome multiplex quantitative PCR, and diet was measured using multiple 24-h recalls.
resultsWe found no associations between blood TL and any of the measures of adiposity or between blood TL and the seven dietary factors examined: processed meats, fried/grilled meats and fish, non-fried fish, coconut oil, fruits and vegetables, bread and bread products, and sugar-sweetened beverages.
conclusionsConsidering the inconsistencies in the literature and our null results, small differences in body composition and consumption of any single pro- or anti-inflammatory dietary component may not by themselves have a meaningful impact on telomere integrity, or the impact may differ across distinct ecological circumstances.
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