Post-traumatic stress disorder, adverse childhood events and buccal cell telomere length in elderly Swiss former indentured child laborers

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with increased risk for age-related diseases and early mortality. Accelerated biological aging could contribute to this elevated risk. The aim of the present study was to assess buccal cell telomere length (BTL) – a proposed marker of biological age...

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Main Authors: Andreas Lorenz Küffer, Andreas Maercker, Andrea Burri, Aoife O'Donovan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00147/full