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Parental age at death is associated with age at first birth in offspring
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- Thalén, Anna, 1997- (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap
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- Ledberg, Anders (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap
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- 2024
- 2024
- English.
- In: Experimental Gerontology. - 0531-5565 .- 1873-6815. ; 189
- Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Purpose: People age at different rates and the available evidence suggests that the rate of aging is partly inherited from previous generations. This heterogeneity in aging is evident already in midlife, but to what extent aging is associated with the timing of events earlier in life is not fully known. Here we aim to shed light on this topic by investigating the trade-off between reproduction and aging postulated by evolutionary theories of aging.Methods: Drawing on the inheritance of aging we use parental age at death as a proxy for aging-rates in the offspring, and study how age at first birth depends on this variable. We use data from an almost complete Swedish birth cohort comprising 92,359 individuals. Accelerated failure time models are used to estimate the association between parental age at death and age at first birth while adjusting for parental occupational class, educational attainment, and income.Results: Longer parental lifespans were consistently associated with older age at first births, both in men and women.Conclusion: Our findings suggest that aging-related processes may be interrelated with the processes underlying the timing of reproduction and are in general agreement with evolutionary theories of aging.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
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- Aging
- Evolution
- Parental age at death
- Reproductive timing
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