Long term effects of childbearing on health.
Open Access
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Vol. 39 (4), 343-346
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.39.4.343
Abstract
Information on whether a woman had ever had any children was recorded for all deaths registered to ever-married women in England and Wales between 1938 and 1960. Analysis of the relation between parity and cause of death for 1.2 million women aged 45-74 years revealed that parous women had lower mortality from breast, ovarian, and endometrial cancer than did nulliparous women but a higher mortality from diabetes mellitus, gallbladder disease, cancer of the uterine cervix, nephritis and nephrosis, hypertension, ischaemic and degenerative heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and all causes of death. There is a parallel between the long term effects of pregnancy and of oral contraceptives on health.Keywords
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