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- who: Diana B. P. Clemente from the Hasselt University , RJ, Bradford, UK have published the research work: Obesity is associated with shorter telomeres in 8 year-old children, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
- what: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and child obesity parameters on telomere length measured in children approximately aged 8 years. In adult leukocytes, the annual telomere loss was estimated between 32.2 and 45.5 bp34, indicating that each child BMI z-score unit increment is corresponding to a loss . . .
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