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The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 61:871-873 (2006)
© 2006 The Gerontological Society of America

SPECIAL ARTICLE

Telomeres and Human Somatic Fitness

Abraham Aviv

The Center of Human Development and Aging, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark.

Address correspondence to Abraham Aviv, MD, Room F-464, MSB, The Center of Human Development and Aging, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Ave., Newark, NJ 07103. E-mail: avivab{at}umdnj.edu

Abstract

Mean leukocyte telomere length may be an indicator of biological age, and as such it appears to provide information over and above chronological age of the risk for developing diseases of aging in humans. Here I propose that the mean leukocyte telomere length is an index of "somatic fitness," a concept that breaks down the artificial boundary between aging and diseases of aging. I also propose that, in exceptionally old humans, ultrashort leukocyte telomeres might be a determinant of life span.




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