School of Community and Global Health, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, USA.
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Chronobiol Int. 2024 Nov;41(11):1480-1491. doi: 10.1080/07420528.2024.2422865. Epub 2024 Nov 11.
While links between certain chronotypes and poorer health outcomes have been well established in previous studies, few studies have examined the relationship between chronotype and cellular aging. Using data from the California Teachers Study (CTS), the present study evaluates the relationship between cellular aging and chronobiology through an analysis of leukocyte telomere length (LTL) and chronotype among 817 predominantly postmenopausal women with no history of cancer and occupations not associated with night-shift work. Unconditional logistic regression models were run to estimate odds ratios (ORs) for each chronotype category, adjusted for age, ethnicity, and smoking status. Analyses were then stratified by potential modifiers to assess whether results varied among specific subgroups within the sample. Women who reported being current evening types and evening types from teen years to now were significantly less likely to have short LTL compared to women who reported being current morning types or morning types from teen years to now (OR = 0.72; 95% CI = 0.53-0.98; OR = 0.57; 95% CI = 0.39-0.84). Our results suggest that women with no history of cancer who identify as evening chronotypes may undergo decreased cellular aging compared to women in the same population who identify as morning types. Further studies on populations of postmenopausal women are warranted.
虽然先前的研究已经充分证实了某些昼夜类型与较差的健康结果之间存在关联,但很少有研究探讨昼夜类型与细胞衰老之间的关系。本研究利用加利福尼亚教师研究(CTS)的数据,通过分析白细胞端粒长度(LTL)和 817 名主要处于绝经后、无癌症病史且职业与夜班无关的女性中的昼夜节律,评估了细胞衰老与生物钟之间的关系。采用非条件逻辑回归模型,根据年龄、种族和吸烟状况调整后,估算每个昼夜类型类别的优势比(OR)。然后根据潜在的修饰因子对分析进行分层,以评估结果是否在样本中的特定亚组之间存在差异。与目前为晨型或从青少年时期起一直为晨型的女性相比,目前为夜型或从青少年时期起一直为夜型的女性 LTL 较短的可能性显著降低(OR=0.72;95%CI=0.53-0.98;OR=0.57;95%CI=0.39-0.84)。我们的研究结果表明,与同人群中晨型的女性相比,无癌症病史且自我认定为夜型的女性可能经历了较少的细胞衰老。进一步研究绝经后女性群体是必要的。