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Telomere Shortening of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in Coronary Disease Patients with Metabolic Disorders.
1 Jan 2003
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Telomere shortening is correlated with cell turnover and aging, but it has been recently suggested to occur not only by aging but by several biochemical factors of metabolic disorders predisposing to atherosclerosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We compared telomere length of peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with the metabolic disorders, hypercholesterolemia (HC) and diabetes mellitus (DM),...
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