کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1902495 1045752 2007 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Does reproduction decrease longevity in human beings?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی سالمندی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Does reproduction decrease longevity in human beings?
چکیده انگلیسی

According to the disposable soma theory, a cost for reproduction could exist in human beings and other species and, thus, longevity could decrease when women have a higher number of children. The purpose of this article is to review the evidence in populations living or not living under natural fertility conditions, i.e. when fertility is near its biological maximum. The results indicate that in natural fertility conditions longevity does not decrease when the number of children increases but, in modern populations, mortality could slightly increase when women have more than ca 5 children. Complete data for these modern cohorts will tell us, one day, whether these results are still observed when the variable of interest is longevity and not only mortality.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Ageing Research Reviews - Volume 6, Issue 2, August 2007, Pages 141–149
نویسندگان
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