ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2022
Obesity Accelerates Leukocyte Telomere Length Shortening in Apparently Healthy Adults: A Meta-Analysis.
Article in Frontiers in nutrition, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 16 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Telomere Length in Patients with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Normoglycemic Pregnant Women: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2024Pooled it
- A review and meta-analysis: Cross-tissue telomere length correlations in healthy humans.Ageing research reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Leukocyte telomere length and obesity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Pooled it
- Vitamin DThe American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Trial
- Telomere length as biomarker of nutritional therapy for prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus development in patients with coronary heart disease: CORDIOPREV randomised controlled trial.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2024Trial
- Leukocyte telomere length and birth characteristics associated with obesity in infancy in a predominantly Latinx cohort.Pediatric obesity · 2025Article
- Effect of obesity and NAFLD on leukocyte telomere length and hTERT gene MNS16A VNTR variant.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The association of telomere length with body mass index and immunological factors differs according to physical activity practice among children and adolescents.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- DNA methylation-based telomere length is associated with HIV infection, physical frailty, cancer, and all-cause mortality.Aging cell · 2024Article
- The Impact of Aging on Multiple Sclerosis.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2024Review
- Efficacy of a dietary supplement derived from five edible plants on telomere length in Thai adults: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.Food science & nutrition · 2024Article
- Genetic liability to human serum metabolites is causally linked to telomere length: insights from genome-wide Mendelian randomization and metabolic pathways analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Involvement of Inheritance in Determining Telomere Length beyond Environmental and Lifestyle Factors.Aging and disease · 2023Review
- Effects of Thyme (Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Male obesity is associated with sperm telomere shortening and aberrant mRNA expression of autophagy-related genes.Basic and clinical andrology · 2023Article
- Associations between shortened telomeres and rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease among U.S. Veterans.Respiratory medicine · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
- Retraction · 2024-02-28Breach of Policy by Author · Concerns/Issues about Authorship/Affiliation · Investigation by Journal/Publisher · · See also: https://pubpeer.com/publications/1DBBDB2012A844DFC5089882A1CFCB
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7 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Background: Shorter telomere length is associated with numerous comorbidities. Several studies have investigated the role of obesity in telomere shortening. In the current systematic review and meta-analysis, we summarized the results of studies that evaluated the association between obesity and telomere length. Methods: A systematic search from Scopus, PubMed, Embase, and ProQuest electronic databases up to 19 March 2021 without language restriction was performed and after data extraction and screening, 19 manuscripts were eligible to be included in the final meta-synthesis. Results: The highest category of telomere length was associated with an approximate 0.75 kg/m Conclusion: From the results, it was clear that obesity was associated with shorter telomere length. Because of the observational design of included studies, the causality inference of results should be done with caution; thus, further longitudinal studies are warranted for better inference of causal association.
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