Associations of parental ages at childbirth with healthy aging among women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine associations of parental ages at childbirth with healthy survival to age 90 years among older women.

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.

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

SUBMITTER: Shadyab AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6761991 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature