Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Better to have boys? Study found female children of older dads don't live as long

I'm reposting information about a study (lead author is Leonid Gavrliov, a longevity researcher) that was recently added to a post I made in March. According to the authors of the study, published in 2000, adult daughters born to older fathers (ages 45-55) lived shorter lives, and that each additional year of paternal age the daughters lost about half a year of life on average. Interestingly, sons of older dads did not have a similar decrease.

Lots of interesting demographics here about older parents in general. The study can be found at
http://longevity-science.org/Parental_Age_2000.pdf

Thank you to Dr. Gavrilov for bringing this to my attention.

2 comments:

concerned heart said...

Paul, A new study on paternal age and autism in May 2007 Molecular Psychiatry.

http://autism-prevention.blogspot.com/search/label/CM%20Lajonchere

Daddy G. said...

I looked at it - very interesting, thanks again!