Ojeda-Rodríguez A, Zazpe I, Alonso-Pedrero L, et al. - Using 5 evidence-based dietary indexes, researchers intended to determine if there is a connection between salivary telomere length (TL) and diet quality in an elderly (> 55 years old) Spanish population of the SUN project (n = 886). They measured TL using the quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. TL varied in the SUN study's elderly individuals by gender, smoking status, and dyslipidemia. Furthermore, individuals with dyslipidemia (compared with the absence of dyslipidemia) had a significantly higher risk of short telomeres. Findings suggested an association of adherence to high-quality diet with longer salivary telomere length in the elderly Spanish population of the SUN study.