Childbearing Timing Tied to Biological Aging

University of Helsinki

A study based on Finnish twins shows that reproductive history is associated, at the population level, with women's lifespan and biological aging. In the study, mothers of large families, women who had no children, or women who had their first child at a very young age appeared to age somewhat faster than other women.

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