Is there an adverse effect of sons on maternal longevity?
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a literature examining the effects of giving birth to sons on postmenopausal longevity in pre-industrial mothers. The original paper in this lineage used a sample ( n =375) of Sami mothers from northern Finland and found that, relative to daughters, givin...
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crroyalsociety:10.1098/rspb.2009.0051 2024-06-23T07:55:30+00:00 Is there an adverse effect of sons on maternal longevity? Cesarini, David Lindqvist, Erik Wallace, Björn 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0051 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2009.0051 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rspb.2009.0051 en eng The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences volume 276, issue 1664, page 2081-2084 ISSN 0962-8452 1471-2954 journal-article 2009 crroyalsociety https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0051 2024-06-04T06:23:09Z Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a literature examining the effects of giving birth to sons on postmenopausal longevity in pre-industrial mothers. The original paper in this lineage used a sample ( n =375) of Sami mothers from northern Finland and found that, relative to daughters, giving birth to sons substantially reduced maternal longevity. We examine this hypothesis using a similar and a much larger sample ( n =930) of pre-industrial Sami women from northern Sweden, who in terms of their demographic, sociocultural and biological conditions, closely resemble the original study population. In contrast to the previously reported results for the Sami, we find no evidence of a negative effect of sons on maternal longevity. Thus, we provide the most compelling evidence to date that the leading result in the literature must be approached with scepticism. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland Northern Sweden sami The Royal Society Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 1664 2081 2084 |
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Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a literature examining the effects of giving birth to sons on postmenopausal longevity in pre-industrial mothers. The original paper in this lineage used a sample ( n =375) of Sami mothers from northern Finland and found that, relative to daughters, giving birth to sons substantially reduced maternal longevity. We examine this hypothesis using a similar and a much larger sample ( n =930) of pre-industrial Sami women from northern Sweden, who in terms of their demographic, sociocultural and biological conditions, closely resemble the original study population. In contrast to the previously reported results for the Sami, we find no evidence of a negative effect of sons on maternal longevity. Thus, we provide the most compelling evidence to date that the leading result in the literature must be approached with scepticism. |
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Is there an adverse effect of sons on maternal longevity? |
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