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Too toxic to ignore

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  • Elizabeth H. Blackburn

    (Elizabeth H. Blackburn is the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine and professor of biology and physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.)

  • Elissa S. Epel

    (University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA, and is part of several National Institute on Aging initiatives on stress research.)

Abstract

A stark warning about the societal costs of stress comes from links between shortened telomeres, chronic stress and disease, say Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Elissa S. Epel.

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  • Elizabeth H. Blackburn & Elissa S. Epel, 2012. "Too toxic to ignore," Nature, Nature, vol. 490(7419), pages 169-171, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:490:y:2012:i:7419:d:10.1038_490169a
    DOI: 10.1038/490169a
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    1. Leena Ala-Mursula & Jessica L Buxton & Ellen Ek & Markku Koiranen & Anja Taanila & Alexandra I F Blakemore & Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, 2013. "Long-Term Unemployment Is Associated with Short Telomeres in 31-Year-Old Men: An Observational Study in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(11), pages 1-8, November.
    2. Ericson, Torgeir & Kjønstad, Bjørn Gunaketu & Barstad, Anders, 2014. "Mindfulness and sustainability," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 73-79.
    3. White, Norman A., 2018. "An inconvenient truth: Biology matters. History and the social structure it produced does too," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 54-57.

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