Stress can influence health throughout the lifespan, yet there is little agreement about what
types and aspects of stress matter most for human health and disease. This is in part …

The search for reliable indicators of biological age, rather than chronological age, has been
ongoing for over three decades, and until recently, largely without success. Advances in the …

Biological aging of human organ systems reflects the interplay of age, chronic disease,
lifestyle and genetic risk. Using longitudinal brain imaging and physiological phenotypes …

Aging is a complex biological process characterized by hallmark features accumulating over
the life course, sha** the individual's aging trajectory and subsequent disease risks. There …

The red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is a simple and inexpensive parameter, which
reflects the degree of heterogeneity of erythrocyte volume (conventionally known as …

Telomeres are the protective end-complexes at the termini of eukaryotic chromosomes.
Telomere attrition can lead to potentially maladaptive cellular changes, block cell division …

INTRODUCTION Telomeres are DNA-protein complexes located at the end of chromosomes
that protect chromosome ends from degradation and fusion. The DNA component of …

Objective To assess the association between leucocyte telomere length and risk of
cardiovascular disease. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources Studies …

Although several lung cancer susceptibility loci have been identified, much of the heritability
for lung cancer remains unexplained. Here 14,803 cases and 12,262 controls of European …

Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) is a catalytic subunit of telomerase. Telomerase
complex plays a key role in cancer formation by telomere dependent or independent …