Having babies later in life may help women live longerJune 26, 2014
Women who naturally have babies after age 33 tend to live longer than those who had their last child before age 30, a new study finds.
This may be because gene variations that enable women to have babies at a later age may also be tied to living longer lives, the Boston University School of Medicine researchers said.
"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," study co-author Dr. Thomas Perls, a professor of medicine at BU, said in a medical center news release.
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