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Looks like covid 19, with or without vaccination, shortens telomeres dramatically

Started by Qowpel , May 12 2021 07:37 PM
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#1 Qowpel

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Posted 12 May 2021 - 07:37 PM

https://www.medrxiv....4.23.21255973v1

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#2 QuestforLife

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Posted 14 May 2021 - 10:08 AM

The paper doesn't talk about whether the patients have been vaccinated, it purely looks at recovered Covid patients vs controls (uninfected as far as we know).

 

Also, although we'd expect Covid to shorten telomeres, we don't know for sure that it wasn't shorter telomeres that caused people to be more susceptible to covid in the first place.

 

The same goes for methylation age; was it causal for infection or is the age acceleration caused by covid?


Edited by QuestforLife, 14 May 2021 - 10:11 AM.

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