Suppression effect of body weight on the association between cigarette smoking and telomere length: the Bogalusa Heart Study

Miaoying Yun; Shengxu Li; Yinkun Yan; Tao Zhang; Lydia Bazzano; Jiang He; Wei Chen

doi:doi:10.18632/aging.102439

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Research Paper Volume 11, Issue 21 pp 9893—9900

Suppression effect of body weight on the association between cigarette smoking and telomere length: the Bogalusa Heart Study

Figure 2. General third variable model of pack-years of smoking, BMI and LTL. β, c and c’ are standardized regression coefficients; c=total effect; c’=direct effect; β₁=indirect effect 1; β₂=indirect effect 2; β_Ind=total indirect effect; BMI=body mass index; LTL=leukocyte telomere length. * P<0.05; ** P<0.01.