Study Suggests Women Who Have Kids Later Are More Likely to Live Longer

“Photo” by William Stitt is licensed under CC0. According to an article on MedlinePlus, a study, which is the first of its kind, suggests women who have children at 25 and older are more likely to live to the age of 90. The research also found that these women were more likely to be married, have college degrees and have a higher income. Postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and study author Aladdin Shadyab said he’s not sure what the link between delaying childbirth and a women’s longevity is. One idea is that women who wait are more likely to be of a higher socio-economic class, which research has consistently suggested increases a person’s longevity. Research published from 2015 found that women who gave birth to their last child after age 33 were twice as likely to live to 95 than those women who gave birth to their last child at age 29. The researchers looked at data from a nationwide study in 1993 that tracked 20,000 women to come to their findings. Of them, 54 percent of them lived to 90 years old. To read more about the study, please visit “Do Women Who Have Kids Later Live Longer?” Follow NN/LM SCR on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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