ArticleJournal of aging and health2017
Telomere Length Among Older U.S. Adults: Differences by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Age.
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60 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Exercise delays aging: evidence from telomeres and telomerase -a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Pooled it
- Telomere Length and Pediatric Obesity: A Review.Genes · 2021Pooled it
- How are social determinants of health integrated into epigenetic research? A systematic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Pooled it
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- Quantile regression of the relationship between demographic factors and leukocyte telomere length, measured by Southern blot and qPCR.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Health behaviours and telomere biology in severe mental disorders.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Telomere Length and Cognitive Function Among Middle-Aged and Older Participants From Communities Underrepresented in Aging Research: A Preliminary Study.Journal of aging and health · 2026Article
- Neighborhood built environment, psychosocial stressors, and telomere length of birth parents and their newborns from San Francisco, California.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Association between leukocytes telomere length and parental consanguineous marriage.EXCLI journal · 2025Article
- Sex-specific modulating role of social support in the associations between oxidative stress, inflammation, and telomere length in older adults.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Telomere length and chronotype among women in the California Teachers Study (CTS).Chronobiology international · 2024Article
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- DNA methylation-based telomere length is associated with HIV infection, physical frailty, cancer, and all-cause mortality.Aging cell · 2024Article
- Does Adulthood Socioeconomic Status Predict Subsequent Telomere Length in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Women?Journal of biomedical and life sciences · 2024Article
- Cross-tissue comparison of telomere length and quality metrics of DNA among individuals aged 8 to 70 years.PloS one · 2024Article
- Genetic Counseling and Family Screening Recommendations in Patients with Telomere Biology Disorders.Current hematologic malignancy reports · 2023Review
- Sub-optimal maternal gestational gain is associated with shorter leukocyte telomere length at birth in a predominantly Latinx cohort of newborns.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2023Article
- Childhood maltreatment and leukocyte telomere length in men and women with chronic illness: an evaluation of moderating and mediating influences.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Intergenerational effects of maternal lifetime stressor exposure on offspring telomere length in Black and White women.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Evaluating genomic signatures of aging in brain tissue as it relates to Alzheimer's disease.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe examine race/ethnic, gender, and age differences in telomere length (TL) within a diverse, nationally representative sample of older adults.
methodData come from 5,228 White, Black, and Hispanic respondents aged 54+ in the 2008 Health and Retirement Study. TL was assayed from saliva using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) by comparing telomere sequence copy number with a single gene copy number (T/S ratio). Linear regression was used to examine TL by race/ethnicity, gender, and age adjusting for social, economic, and health characteristics.
resultsWomen had longer TL than men (p < .05). Blacks ( p < .05) and Hispanics ( p < .10) had longer TL than Whites. Black women and men had the longest TL relative to other groups ( p < .05), while White men had the shortest TL ( p < .05). Black women and Hispanic men showed greater differences in TL with age. DISCUSSION: Findings indicate social patterns in TL by race/ethnicity, gender, and age among older adults do not reflect differences observed in most population health outcomes.
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