Giving birth adds years to biological age

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3167, 2018, pág. 16
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Women who have given birth seem to have hallmarks of faster ageing than those that haven't--and the difference is equivalent to around 11 years. That's what Anna Pollack and her colleagues at George Mason University, Virginia, found when they looked at one measure of biological ageing. They found that women who had given birth had telomeres that were on average 4.2 per cent shorter than those who had not had children, even after accounting for factors like age, socioeconomic status and body mass index