Telomere Length in Elderly Caucasians Weakly Correlates with Blood Cell Counts

Table 4

Correlations between telomere length and red blood count (RBC), white blood count (WBC), and platelet count (PLT): results of multivariate analysis (linear regression model). 𝑅²=0.16 for RBC model, 𝑅²=0.07 for WBC model, and 𝑅²=0.06 for PLT model.

Independent variable	RBC		WBC		PLT
	𝛽±SD	𝑃	𝛽±SD	𝑃	𝛽±SD	𝑃
Male gender	−0.001±0.046	0.98	−0.873±0.210	<0.001	29.358±7.537	<0.001
Age (years)	−0.012±0.002	<0.001	−0.020±0.008	0.010	−3.218±1.443	0.02
Vitamin B12 (𝜇g/mL)	0.001±0.000	0.08	0.001±0.000	0.5	0.001±0.006	0.8
Folic acid (ng/mL)	−0.008±0.003	0.004	−0.028±0.012	0.02	0.225±0.440	0.6
Fe (μg/mL)	0.001±0.000	0.005	−0.007±0.002	<0.001	−0.163±0.071	0.02
CRP (mg/L)	−0.003±0.002	0.08	0.043±0.008	<0.001	1.171±0.268	<0.001
eGFR (mL/min/1.73 m^2)	0.003±0.001	<0.001	−0.011±0.004	0.004	0.258±0.136	0.06
Testosteron (ng/mL)	0.040±0.009	<0.001	−0.081±0.041	0.05	1.346±1.485	0.4
NSAIDs (yes)	−0.009±0.036	0.80	−0.116±0.165	0.5	−2.160±5.900	0.7
Telomere length*	0.029±0.013	0.03	0.154±0.062	0.01	2.380±2.222	0.3

∗Variable logarithmically transformed.