Significant relationship between mortality and telomere length discovered
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have identified a significant relationship between mortality and the length of telomeres, the stretches of DNA that protect the ends of chromosomes. The prospective study of 100,000 multi-ethnic individuals, whose average age was 63, found that an association between telomere length and mortality existed and persisted even after data were adjusted for education, smoking and alcohol consumption.