Table 1.

Loss of Telomere Fluorescence with Age in Blood Cells

Subset	Age range	n	y intercept (MESF × 10−3)	Slope (MESF × 10−3/yr)	Slope(bp/yr)	R value
Linear regression analysis
	yr
TL	0–90	284	18.48	−0.119	−59	−0.74
G		292	15.96	−0.079	−39	−0.52
TL	0–4	67	20.34	−0.923	−457	−0.34
G		69	17.43	−0.977	−483	−0.34
TL	4–90	217	17.73	−0.105	−52	−0.69
G		223	15.73	−0.072	−36	−0.48
Bisegmented line analysis
TL	0–1.5	38	20.96	−2.2	−1,088
	≥1.5	246	17.82	−0.106	−52
G	0–0.5	23	18.59	−6.168	−3,052
	≥0.5	269	15.54	−0.068	−34