Physical and sexual abuse in childhood and adolescence and leukocyte telomere length: A pooled analysis of the study on psychosocial stress, spirituality, and health.

Physical and sexual abuse in childhood and adolescence and leukocyte telomere length: A pooled analysis of the study on psychosocial stress, spirituality, and health.

<h4>Introduction</h4>We examined whether abuse in childhood and/or adolescence was associated with shorter telomere length in a pooled analysis of 3,232 participants from five diverse cohorts. We also assessed whether religion or spirituality (R/S) could buffer deleterious effects of abu...

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Main Authors: Erica T Warner, Ying Zhang, Yue Gu, Tâmara P Taporoski, Alexandre Pereira, Immaculata DeVivo, Nicholas D Spence, Yvette Cozier, Julie R Palmer, Alka M Kanaya, Namratha R Kandula, Shelley A Cole, Shelley Tworoger, Alexandra Shields
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241363

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