Cognitive Change During the Life Course and Leukocyte Telomere Length in Late Middle-aged Men.

AbstractImportance: Cognitive skills are known to decline through the lifespan with large individual differences. The molecular mechanisms for this decline are incompletely understood. Although leukocyte telomere length provides an index of cellular age that predicts the incidence of age-related dis...

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Main Authors: Lene Rask, Laila Bendix, Maria Harbo, Birgitte Fagerlund, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Martin Johannes Laurtizen, Merete Osler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2016.00300/full