The father's age affects the health of the child

It is known that pozdnerodyaschie mother subjected to health of their children to additional risks. But scientists have found that being of children to some degree threatened and older fathers.

New research shows that men are born of age children have an increased risk of becoming victims of a number of genetic disorders and diseases, including autism, schizophrenia and developmental problems, such as dwarfism. Some scientists today connects the presence of an elderly father with the danger of his child in adult life of Alzheimer's disease, bipolar disorder (manic depression), heart disease and cancer.

For decades, women encouraged to give birth at a young age to avoid further danger to the health of their babies. At age mothers often are born children with Down syndrome as proven by science. Until recently, scientists did not say anything about whether the impact on child health the father's age . But now established that if a man decides to become a dad after 40, the risk of transmission of child potentially dangerous genetic mutations that can cause the disease, doubled compared to younger fathers (after 20). In other words, for men too, ticking biological clock.

These new findings could affect the change in trend of age of parents, which is becoming increasingly popular. And women are more attentive to the issue of the choice of the father for their unborn child in terms of his age. The sharp rise in the number of children suffering from various kinds of genetic disorders, just due to the spread of age parents. In the UK alone, for example, for 10% of all children born from Fathers aged   40-45, and 5% of dads aged 45 and older. (READ MORE)

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