{"id":213855,"date":"2018-03-10T19:35:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T19:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/having-children-can-make-womens-telomeres-seem-11-years-older\/"},"modified":"2018-03-10T19:35:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T19:35:42","slug":"having-children-can-make-womens-telomeres-seem-11-years-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/having-children-can-make-womens-telomeres-seem-11-years-older\/","title":{"rendered":"Having children can make women&#8217;s telomeres seem 11 years older"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Their findings were published in <em>Human Reproduction<\/em>. The authors reported that telomeres among women who had children were the equivalent of 11 years shorter. This was a larger change than has been reported by other research groups for smoking or obesity. Dr. Anna Z. Pollack, lead author of the study, pointed out, &#8220;with cross-sectional data, we can&#8217;t tell if having children is related to shortening of telomeres or merely whether women who have children start out with shorter telomeres.&#8221; Additional factors to consider include stress and social support, as well as whether similar findings are seen in men.<\/p>\n<p>The paper utilized data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which is a nationally representative study in the United States. Pollack notes that these findings, &#8220;are preliminary and should be confirmed with prospective studies.&#8221; The study was co-authored by Mason alumna, Kelsey Rivers, who completed the research study through a George Mason University Undergraduate Research Scholars Program award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their findings were published in Human Reproduction. The authors reported that telomeres among women who had children were the equivalent of 11 years shorter. This was a larger change than has been reported by other research groups for smoking or obesity. Dr. Anna Z. Pollack, lead author of the study, pointed out, &#8220;with cross-sectional data, <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/having-children-can-make-womens-telomeres-seem-11-years-older\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}