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- Title
The power of exercise: buffering the effect of chronic stress on telomere length.
- Authors
Puterman, Eli; Lin, Jue; Blackburn, Elizabeth; O'Donovan, Aoife; Adler, Nancy; Epel, Elissa
- Abstract
Chronic psychological stress is associated with detrimental effects on physical health, and may operate in part through accelerated cell aging, as indexed by shorter telomeres at the ends of chromosomes. However, not all people under stress have distinctly short telomeres, and we examined whether exercise can serve a stress-buffering function. We predicted that chronic stress would be related to short telomere length (TL) in sedentary individuals, whereas in those who exercise, stress would not have measurable effects on telomere shortening.
- Publication
PloS one, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 5, pe10837
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0010837