Thursday, 26 June 2014

Women Who Become First Time Mothers Late in Their Lives Live to a Very Old Age

A new study reveals that women who give birth to their first child late in their lives are more likely to live to an unusually old age. In the nested case-control study, which used Long Life Family Study data, 311 women who survived past the oldest fifth percentile of survival (according to birth cohort-matched life tables) were identified as cases, along with 151 women who died at ages younger than the top fifth percentile of survival who were identified as controls. ...

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