Editorial: Childhood Stress and Psychopathology: It's Not Too Early to Look at Biological Aging

Middeldorp*

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Abstract

There has been growing interest in the associations among biological aging, stress, and psychopathology. Biological aging reflects an individual's functional and biological condition, and one of the indicators is telomere length.1 Telomeres consist of DNA repeats at chromosome ends.2 It is a normal process that telomeres shorten during the lifespan, but this process can be accelerated and result in biological aging associated with morbidity and mortality.2

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)38-39
Number of pages2
JournalJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume59
Issue number1
Early online date1 Oct 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2020

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