Association between shortened leukocyte telomere length and cardio-metabolic outcomes

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Doha, Qatar and Cardiovascular Genetics Division, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT (S.C.H.); Epidemiology Unit, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel (J.D.K.); and The Center of Human Development and Aging, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Newark, NJ (A.A.).
² From the Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Doha, Qatar and Cardiovascular Genetics Division, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT (S.C.H.); Epidemiology Unit, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel (J.D.K.); and The Center of Human Development and Aging, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Newark, NJ (A.A.). avivab@njms.rutgers.edu.

Editorial

Steven C Hunt et al. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2015 Feb.

. 2015 Feb;8(1):4-7.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.114.000964.

¹ From the Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Doha, Qatar and Cardiovascular Genetics Division, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT (S.C.H.); Epidemiology Unit, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel (J.D.K.); and The Center of Human Development and Aging, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Newark, NJ (A.A.).
² From the Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Doha, Qatar and Cardiovascular Genetics Division, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT (S.C.H.); Epidemiology Unit, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel (J.D.K.); and The Center of Human Development and Aging, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Newark, NJ (A.A.). avivab@njms.rutgers.edu.

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Keywords: Editorials; atherosclerosis; biomarker; birth; diabetes mellitus; stroke; telomeres.

Comment on

Association between shortened leukocyte telomere length and cardiometabolic outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis.
D'Mello MJ, Ross SA, Briel M, Anand SS, Gerstein H, Paré G. D'Mello MJ, et al. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2015 Feb;8(1):82-90. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.113.000485. Epub 2014 Nov 18. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2015. PMID: 25406241