Did you, or will you, have a baby after the
age of 33? Then you might live much longer
than the average woman, or so say
researchers.
According to research by Thomas Perls,
director of the New England Centenarian
Study (NECS), women who are able to have
children after the age of 33 have a greater
chance of living longer than women who
had their last child before the age of 30.
And it wasn’t a small difference; women
who had their last child after the age of 33
doubled their chances of living to age 95 or
older compared with women whose last
child was born before their 30th birthday.
The study, scheduled for print publication in
Menopause: The Journal of the North
American Menopause Society in January
2015, also provided evidence that the
genetic variations that go into making a
woman fertile longer may also increase her
chances of having an unusually long life
spans, researchers say.
“The natural ability to have a child at an
older age likely indicates that a woman’s
reproductive system is aging slowly, and
therefore so is the rest of her body,” said
Perls.
Unlike some aging and fertility research,
which focuses on a woman’s age at first
birth, this study looked at when women had
their last child. Explained Perls, a Professor
at Boston University School of Medicine :
“The age at last childbirth can be a rate of
aging indicator.”
This isn’t the first research out of the NECS
highlighting the connection between a
woman’s age when she last gives birth and
increased longevity; a previous study found
that women who gave birth to a child at or
after 40 had four times the chance of living
to 100 than women who were younger
when they had their last child.
Perls stressed that his research does not
mean that if you wait longer to have
children, you’ll live longer. And longevity
should not be used as a reason to postpone
having children.
For one thing, women’s fertility peaks in
her 20s and declines precipitously after the
age of 30. According to current research
statistics, your chance of having a baby
(without drugs or IVF) within a year is 75
percent at age 30, 66 percent at 35, and just
44 percent at 40. If you give yourself four
years of trying, your odds increase to 91
percent at age 30, 84 percent at 35, and 64
percent at 40.
Perls’ Boston University research team
analyzed data from the Long Life Family
Study (LLFS), a co-effort by BU and three
other universities that studies a cohort of
551 families in which many members live
exceptionally long lives. From this group,
researchers used a pool of 462 women for
whom they knew the age at last birth and
age at death.
But let’s take a look at a couple of caveats,
here. First, the women included in this
study were already from families with a
propensity to be unusually long-lived. I
would like to see the researchers tease out
this distinction, and make a case for how
we would know the conclusions can be
generalized to apply to all women.
Then there’s the issue of association rather
than causation. Sociological data show that
women who have children at a later age
tend to be better off and better educated,
factors that are associated with making
healthier lifestyle choices as well.
According to Perls, the study results also
suggest that the link between extended
fertility and longevity may be driving the
evolution of genetic variants that slow
down aging and prolong life.
How? “If a woman has those variants, she is
able to reproduce and bear children for a
longer period of time, increasing her
chances of passing down those genes to the
next generation,” said Perls. He noted that
women make up 85 percent of who live to
age 100, while just 15 percent of
centenarians are men.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2014/07/07/women-who-have-babies-later-live-longer-study-says/

Absolutely correct!

Even if you are living in maidugri

Tallesty1: Even if you are living in maidugri

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The older a woman gets,the smaller the chances of having a healthy baby so why wait cos it might make you live longer?

Some studies sef...

Well, good to know.

Wow...didnt know dat

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Studies that touch the heart.