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Eating 5-a-day of fruit and vegetables

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  • Funders: British Heart Foundation and 4 more
  • Humans1

Associations

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Telomere length

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  1. Eating 5-a-day of fruit and vegetables are associated with telomere length in humans (+0.027 SD (P = 5.36×10−09)).

    “For adherents to "5-a-day" z-LTL was on average longer by 0.027 SD (P = 5.36×10−09)”

    Humansn = 422,797

    Dietary Patterns and Practices and Leucocyte Telomere Length: Findings from the UK Biobank

    Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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