Telomere Length Is Not Related to Established Cardiovascular Risk Factors but Does Correlate with Red and White Blood Cell Counts in a German Blood Donor Population

• Bruno Neuner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bruno Neuner, Anna Lenfers

  Affiliations Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité, University Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Charité-Mitte, Charité, University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

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• Anna Lenfers ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bruno Neuner, Anna Lenfers

  Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

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• Reinhard Kelsch,

  Affiliation Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

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• Kathrin Jäger,

  Affiliations Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité, University Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Labor Berlin, Charité Vivantes Services GmbH, Berlin, Germany

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• Nina Brüggmann,

  Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité, University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

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• Pim van der Harst,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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• Michael Walter

  * E-mail: m.walter@charite.de

  Affiliations Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité, University Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Labor Berlin, Charité Vivantes Services GmbH, Berlin, Germany

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