Early life infection, but not breastfeeding, predicts adult blood telomere lengths in the Philippines.
Dan T A EisenbergJudith B BorjaM Geoffrey HayesChristopher W KuzawaPublished in: American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council (2017)
These findings show that infancy diarrheal disease predicts a marker of cellular aging in adult immune cells. These findings suggest that early life infectious burden may influence late life health, or alternatively, that short TL in early life increases infectious disease susceptibility.