Association of shorter leucocyte telomere length with risk of frailty

• Main Authors: Vasiliki Bountziouka (Author), Christopher P. Nelson (Author), Veryan Codd (Author), Qingning Wang (Author), Crispin Musicha (Author), Elias Allara (Author), Stephen Kaptoge (Author), Emanuele Di Angelantonio (Author), Adam S. Butterworth (Author), John R. Thompson (Author), Elizabeth M. Curtis (Author), Angela M. Wood (Author), John N. Danesh (Author), Nicholas C. Harvey (Author), Cyrus Cooper (Author), Nilesh J. Samani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome of decline that affects multiple systems and predisposes to adverse health outcomes. Although chronological age is the major risk factor, inter‐individual variation in risk is not fully understood. Leucocyte telomere length (LTL), a proposed...