Mediterranean diet and telomere length in Nurses' Health Study: population based cohort study

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OBJECTIVE: To examine whether adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with longer telomere length, a biomarker of aging. DESIGN: Population based cohort study. SETTING: Nurses' Health Study, an ongoing prospective cohort study of 121,700 nurses enrolled in 1976; in 1989-90 a subset of 32,825 women provided blood samples. PARTICIPANTS: 4676 disease-free women from nested case-control studies within the...

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