Association between maternal age at childbirth and child and adult outcomes in the offspring: a prospective study in five low-income and middle-income countries (COHORTS collaboration).

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

Both young and advanced maternal age is associated with adverse birth and child outcomes. Few studies have examined these associations in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) and none have studied adult outcomes in the offspring. We aimed to examine both child and adult outcomes in five LMICs.

Related collections

Author and article information

Journal

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Lancet Glob Health

Title: The Lancet. Global health

ISSN (Electronic): 2214-109X

ISSN (Print): 2214-109X

Publication date (Electronic): Jul 2015

Volume: 3

Issue: 7

Affiliations

[1 ] MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. Electronic address: chdf@mrc.soton.ac.uk.

[2 ] Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi, India.

[3 ] MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

[4 ] Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Capão do Leão, Pelotas, Brazil.

[5 ] Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

[6 ] All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

[7 ] Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

[8 ] Office of Population Studies Foundation, University of San Carlos, Cebu, Philippines.

[9 ] Medical Research Council Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa.

[10 ] Human Sciences Research Council, Durban, South Africa.

Article

Publisher Item ID: S2214-109X(15)00038-8 Mid ID: EMS67899

DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00038-8

PubMed ID: 25999096

SO-VID: 294b0890-4a23-4aa0-a7db-a706fdde8293

History

Data availability:

Comments

Comment on this article

scite_

Cited by 127

See all cited by