Having babies later in life may help women live longer
Jun-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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