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ReviewJournal of diabetes and metabolic disorders2025

Telomere length and telomerase activity in men and non-pregnant women with and without metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and bootstrapped meta-analysis.

Ana Maria Fernández Alonso, Seshadri Reddy Varikasuvu, Faustino R Pérez-López

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Review in Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors.

Ana Maria Fernández AlonsoDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Torrecárdenas University Hospital, Almería, Paraje Torrecárdenas s/n 04009 Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4844-2145
Seshadri Reddy VarikasuvuDepartment of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar, Jharkhand India.ORCID 0000-0002-2230-4676
Faustino R Pérez-LópezAragón Health Research Institute, University of Zaragoza Faculty of Medicine, Domingo Miral s/n, Zaragoza, 50009 Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2801-416X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the associations between telomere length and telomerase activity in subjects with and without metabolic syndrome (MetS). Methods: The meta-analysis protocol was registered in the PROSPERO database. The PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and LILACS databases were searched for studies reporting telomere length or telomerase activity in adult men and non-pregnant women with and without MetS. The risk of bias was assessed with the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Random effects and inverse variance methods were used to meta-analyze associations. We conducted a bootstrapped analysis to test the accuracy of clinical results. Results: Five studies reported telomere length and two studies telomerase activity. There was no significant difference in telomere length (standardized mean difference [SMD]: 0.10, 95% confidence interval [CI]: -0.07, 0.28, Conclusion: There were no significant differences of telomere length and telomerase activity in patients with MetS and subjects of similar age without the syndrome. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40200-024-01513-4.

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Metabolic syndromeTelomeraseTelomere length

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