Toward a mechanistic understanding of psychosocial factors in telomere degradation

Affiliations

¹ Quantitative Sciences Unit, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: mmathur@stanford.edu.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Quantitative Sciences Unit, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
⁵ Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
⁶ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Maya B Mathur et al. Brain Behav Immun. 2016 Aug.

. 2016 Aug:56:413.

doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2016.04.011. Epub 2016 Apr 23.

¹ Quantitative Sciences Unit, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: mmathur@stanford.edu.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Quantitative Sciences Unit, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
⁵ Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
⁶ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Perceived stress and telomere length: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and methodologic considerations for advancing the field.
Mathur MB, Epel E, Kind S, Desai M, Parks CG, Sandler DP, Khazeni N. Mathur MB, et al. Brain Behav Immun. 2016 May;54:158-169. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2016.02.002. Epub 2016 Feb 4. Brain Behav Immun. 2016. PMID: 26853993 Free PMC article.
The importance of sleep in the association between perceived stress and telomere length.
Tempaku PF, Hirotsu C, Tufik S. Tempaku PF, et al. Brain Behav Immun. 2016 Aug;56:412. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2016.04.010. Epub 2016 Apr 23. Brain Behav Immun. 2016. PMID: 27112383 No abstract available.