Examining the gender difference in the association between metabolic syndrome and the mean leukocyte telomere length

• Yuan-Yuei Cheng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Tung-Wei Kao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software

  Affiliations Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Yaw-Wen Chang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Republic of China

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• Chen-Jung Wu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Division of Family Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Tao-Chun Peng,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Li-Wei Wu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Republic of China

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• Hui-Fang Yang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Fang-Yih Liaw,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Republic of China

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• Wei-Liang Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: weiliang0508@gmail.com

  Affiliations Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Republic of China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0784-230X

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