ArticleSSM - population health2022
Higher educational attainment is associated with longer telomeres in midlife: Evidence from sibling comparisons in the UK Biobank.
Article in SSM - population health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Associations between air pollution and relative leukocyte telomere length among northern Swedish adults based on findings from the Betula study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association of self-reported sleep duration with leukocyte telomere length in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- High school diploma is associated with longer postpartum leukocyte telomere length in a cohort of primarily Latina women.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2024Article
- Causal association and shared genetics between telomere length and COVID-19 outcomes: New evidence from the latest large-scale summary statistics.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024Article
- Breaking down causes, consequences, and mediating effects of telomere length variation on human health.Genome biology · 2024Article
- Elucidating Multimodal Imaging Patterns in Accelerated Brain Aging: Heterogeneity through a Discriminant Analysis Approach Using the UK Biobank Dataset.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Mitigating cellular aging and enhancing cognitive functionality: visual arts-mediated Cognitive Activation Therapy in neurocognitive disorders.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- 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
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Abstract
Prior studies have established that higher educational attainment is associated with a longer telomere length (TL), a marker of cellular aging. However, it is unclear whether extant associations are causal, since they are likely confounded by unobserved genetic, early-life and family background factors that are correlated with education and TL. We leverage sibling differences in TL, education and measured genetics (polygenic scores for educational attainment and TL) to estimate associations between educational attainment and TL in midlife for European ancestry individuals in the UK Biobank, while controlling for unobserved confounders shared by siblings. After controlling for genetics and shared background between siblings, we find suggestive evidence that high school graduates have longer telomeres than high school dropouts, but we find no differences in TL between high school dropouts and college graduates.
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