Associations of parental age with offspring all-cause and cause-specific adult mortality

Abstract excerpt

People are having children later in life. The consequences for offspring adult survival have been little studied due to the need for long follow-up linked to parental data and most research has considered offspring survival only in early life. We used Swedish registry data to examine all-cause and cause-specific adult mortality (293,470 deaths among 5,204,433 people, followed up to a maximum of 80 years old) in...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Birth, Development, and Health
• Share to Health disparities and outcomes