Physical activity and sports have repeatedly been reported to be associated with telomere length. We studied the association of different types of sports across different stages of life on relative leukocyte telomere length (rLTL) in advanced age.815 participants (397 men) from the Berlin Aging Study II aged over 61 years were included in the analysis. rLTL was measured by real time PCR and physical ...
In:
PloS one
10 (2015), 12, e0142131 (13 S.)
| Denise Saßenroth, Antje Meyer, Bastian Salewsky, Martin Kroh, Kristina Norman, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Ilja Demuth
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Hendrik Berth ... [Hrsg.] ,
Gesichter der ostdeutschen Transformation : die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer der Sächsischen Längsschnittstudie im Porträt
Gießen: Psychosozial-Verl.
S. 45-62
Forschung Psychosozial
| Hendrik Berth, David Richter, Markus Zenger, Yve Stöbel-Richter, Elmar Brähler, Gert G. Wagner
Statistical Analysis in surveys is generally facing missing data. In longitudinal studies for some missing values there might be past or future data points available. The question arises how to successfully transform this advantage into improvedimputation strategies. In a simulation study the authors compare six combinations of cross‐sectional and longitudinal imputation strategies for German wealth ...
Many people are afraid of falling prey to crime. The present report investigates the extent to which this fear is in line with the actual regional crime rates. This analysis is based on data from a comprehensive database on the fear of crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of unreported crime). No evidence was found to ...
Viele Bürger fürchten Opfer einer Straftat zu werden. Der Frage, inwieweit diese Furcht sich mit der regionalen Kriminalitätsbelastung deckt, versucht dieser Beitrag nachzugehen. Die Untersuchung basiert auf einer umfangreichen Datengrundlage zu Kriminalitätsfurcht und verbindet diese mit polizeilichen Daten zur Kriminalitätsbelastung (genauer: die um ihr Dunkelfeld korrigierte polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik). ...