Associations between Rotating Night Shifts, Sleep Duration, and Telomere Length in Women

Geyu Liang; Eva Schernhammer; Lu Qi; Xiang Gao; Immaculata De Vivo

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023462

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Associations between Rotating Night Shifts, Sleep Duration, and Telomere Length in Women

Geyu Liang, Eva Schernhammer, Lu Qi, Xiang Gao, Immaculata De Vivo, Jiali Han

Public Library of Science (2011) • Volume 6, Issue 8, Pages e23462-e23462

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Abstract

We found that sleep duration was positively associated with telomere length among women under 50 years old. Further research is needed to confirm the observed associations.

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10.1371/journal.pone.0023462

Language

English

Topic

Telomeres

Keywords

Telomere, Medicine, Sleep (system call), Demography, Internal medicine, Attrition, Cross-sectional study, Physiology, Gerontology, Biology, Genetics, Pathology

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August 10, 2011

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