2014
DOI: 10.1097/nnr.0000000000000009
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Abstract: Background Although telomere shortening occurs as a natural part of aging, there is now a robust body of research that suggests that there is a relationship between psychosocial, environmental, and behavioral factors and changes in telomere length. These factors need to be considered when integrating telomere measurement in biobehavioral research studies. Objectives This article provides a brief summary of the known facts about telomere biology and an integrative review of current human research studies that… Show more

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“…Our results support another study that found a positive association between social environment and telomere length (Mitchell et al, 2014). In addition, psychosocial factors might affect telomere length (Shalev et al, 2013;Starkweather et al, 2014). Childhood stress (analyzed as socioeconomic adversities) led to shortened telomere length in adults (Kananen et al, 2010).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 88%
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“…Our results support another study that found a positive association between social environment and telomere length (Mitchell et al, 2014). In addition, psychosocial factors might affect telomere length (Shalev et al, 2013;Starkweather et al, 2014). Childhood stress (analyzed as socioeconomic adversities) led to shortened telomere length in adults (Kananen et al, 2010).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 88%
“…Childhood stress (analyzed as socioeconomic adversities) led to shortened telomere length in adults (Kananen et al, 2010). Starkweather et al (2014) reviewed several studies regarding telomere length and found that both chronic stress and acute stress appeared to lead to telomere shortening. The negative association between the number of perinatal complications (including Apgar score) and telomere length at the age 38 was observed (Shalev et al, 2014).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In view of two recent reviews on the influence of physical activity on TL (Kadi and Ponsot, 2010;Ludlow et al, 65 2013), and while it is recognized that numerous other individual and biobehavioral factors affecting TL exist (see Table 1 (Starkweather et al, 2014)), in the following primarily those aspects will be summarized that relate to the aims of the present work stated in the introduction (Chapter 1). This includes a brief treatment of the structure of telomeres, followed by a discussion of telomere length regulatory mechanisms.…”
Section: Background and Methodsologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At the chromosomal level, telomere length has been associated with psychosocial, environmental, and behavioral factors as well as aging (Starkweather et al, 2014). The integration of genomics with biobehavioral research has been proposed using a transplantation exemplar (Driscoll, Lyon, & McCain, 2011).…”
Section: Emerging Areas and The Nature Of Nursingmentioning
confidence: 99%