ArticleOxidative medicine and cellular longevity2017
Food Security and Leukocyte Telomere Length in Adult Americans.
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- Study of the role of leukocyte telomere length-related lncRNA NBR2 in Alzheimer's disease.Aging · 2024Article
- Food insecurity and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Food Insecurity, telomere length and the potential modifying effects of social support in National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Food insecurity as a cause of adiposity: evolutionary and mechanistic hypotheses.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Food Insecurity and Cognitive Impairment in the Miami Adult Studies on HIV (MASH) Cohort.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Article
- Serum anti-inflammatory and inflammatory markers have no causal impact on telomere length: a Mendelian randomization study.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2021Article
- Association between socioeconomic markers and adult telomere length differs according to sex: Pro-Saúde study.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2020Article
- The Relationship between Telomere Length and Cancer Mortality: Data from the 1999-2002 National Healthy and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2020Article
- Association between plasma trans fatty acids concentrations and leucocyte telomere length in US adults.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2018Article
- Serum trans-fatty acids level are positively associated with lower food security among american adults.Nutrition & diabetes · 2018Article
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Abstract
background and purposeLeukocyte telomere length (LTL) is a biomarker of biologic age. Whether food security status modulates LTL is still unknown. We investigated the association between food security and LTL in participants of the 1999-2002 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
methodsAnalysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to evaluate the association between food security categories and LTL controlling for sex, race, and education and accounting for the survey design and sample weights.
resultsWe included 10,888 participants with 5228 (48.0%) being men. They were aged on average 44.1 years. In all, 2362 (21.7%) had less than high school, 2787 (25.6%) had achieved high school, while 5705 (52.5%) had done more than high school. In sex-, race-, and education-adjusted ANCOVA, average LTL (T/S ratio) for participants with high food security versus those with marginal, low, or very low food security was 1.32 versus 1.20 for the age group 25-35 years and 1.26 versus 1.11 for the 35-45 years, (
conclusionThe association between food insecurity and LTL shortening in young adults suggest that some of the future effects of food insecurity on chronic disease risk in this population could be mediated by telomere shortening.
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