Associations of smoking indicators and cotinine levels with telomere length: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

The influence of smoking exposure on telomere length with a focus on the impact of race has rarely been discussed. We performed a cross sectional analysis into the associations of smoking indicators with leukocyte telomere length (LTL) by race among 5864 nationally representative sample of US adults...

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Main Authors: Rumana J. Khan, Samson Y. Gebreab, Amadou Gaye, Pia R. Crespo, Ruihua Xu, Sharon K. Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
Series:Preventive Medicine Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335519300749