… sample of children aged 3–5-years. This … telomerase in children with recent maltreatment
exposure, which provides a relative protection against oxidative stress and telomere shortening …

… stress is associated with accelerated telomere shortening, … conducted when the children
were 1, 3, 5, and 9 years old. … ’s sex, race/ethnicity, and age at exposure. We also found that the …

… Its impact on victims' health at the cellular level, however, … between abuse exposure and
shortening of telomere length (… shorter in children with higher exposure to family violence and …

… exposure to stress correspond with self-regulatory abilities, which then exacerbate physiological
dysregulation that can contribute to telomere shortening. … -year measures of exposure to …

… may play a unique role in shaping telomere shortening in … children with greater exposure
to traumatic violence during ages 5–10 years old had greater telomere attrition over the same 5-…

… with more exposure to violence showed significantly more BTL erosion from age 5 to 10
years compared with children with less violence exposure (19). Similarly, Drury and colleagues …

… to the lifetime exposure to competing causes of TL-shortening. This study … the five-year
period used in our study should be enough lag to demonstrate accelerated telomere shortening …

… counteract telomere shortening with telomerase, a telomere … age range (30–98 years). Our
results support earlier findings that … did not directly ask exposure to violence or threat because …

… erosion may result from childhood exposure to adversities, including childhood abuse and
neglect 10 … in adults, whose recalls of exposure to violence years after the events happened …

… telomere erosion during childhood and adulthood [71]. Additional risk factors for telomere
erosion include socioeconomic vulnerability [72], … A large cohort study conducted over 10 years …