TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howard, Barbara V
TI  - Associations of parental ages at childbirth with healthy aging among women
SN  - 0378-5122
PY  - 2019///
KW  - *Healthy Aging
KW  - *Maternal Age
KW  - *Paternal Age
KW  - Adult
KW  - Aged
KW  - Aged, 80 and over
KW  - Cohort Studies
KW  - Female
KW  - Health Status
KW  - Humans
KW  - Male
KW  - Parturition
KW  - Survival Rate
KW  - MedStar Health Research Institute
KW  - Journal Article
N2  - CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that being born to older fathers was associated with healthy survival to age 90 among women who had survived to ages 65-79 years at study baseline. There was no association of maternal age at childbirth with healthy survival to age 90 among these older women. Copyright (c) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved; MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The outcome was categorized as: 1) healthy survival, defined as survival to age 90 without major morbidities (coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, or hip fracture) or mobility disability; 2) usual survival, defined as survival to age 90 without healthy aging (reference category); or 3) death before age 90. Women reported their own and their parents' birth years, and parental ages at childbirth were calculated and categorized as <25, 25-29, 30-34, or >=35 years; OBJECTIVE: To examine associations of parental ages at childbirth with healthy survival to age 90 years among older women; RESULTS: Women were aged on average 71.3 (standard deviation 2.7; range 65-79) years at baseline. There was no significant association of maternal age at childbirth with healthy survival to age 90 or death before age 90. Women born to fathers aged >=35 compared with 30-34 years at their births were more likely to achieve healthy than usual survival (OR, 1.15; 95% CI, 1.00-1.32). There was no association of paternal age at childbirth with death before age 90; STUDY DESIGN: This study included a racially and ethnically diverse sub-cohort of 8,983 postmenopausal women from the larger Women's Health Initiative population, recruited during 1993-1998 and followed for up to 25 years through 2018
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2019.08.002
ER  -