Leucocyte Telomere Length and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: New Prospective Cohort Study and Literature-Based Meta-Analysis

• Peter Willeit ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Willeit, Julia Raschenberger

  * E-mail: pwilleit@outlook.com (PW); stefan.kiechl@i-med.ac.at (SK)

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Julia Raschenberger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Willeit, Julia Raschenberger

  Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

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• Emma E. Heydon,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Sotirios Tsimikas,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States of America

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• Margot Haun,

  Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

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• Agnes Mayr,

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Bruneck Hospital, Bruneck, Italy

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• Siegfried Weger,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Bruneck Hospital, Bruneck, Italy

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• Joseph L. Witztum,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States of America

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• Adam S. Butterworth,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Johann Willeit,

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

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• Florian Kronenberg,

  Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

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• Stefan Kiechl

  * E-mail: pwilleit@outlook.com (PW); stefan.kiechl@i-med.ac.at (SK)

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

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