Pregnancy may accelerate biological aging in women who have never given birth by up to 5.3 years, according to a new study.

CHICAGO (CBS)– New scientific evidence from Northwestern shows pregnancy accelerates the rate of aging. The findings reveal that with each pregnancy, cellular aging was accelerated by a range of six ...

In a new study, researchers show that elevated levels of proteins related to cellular senescence, or aging, in the blood and the placenta are linked to this form of heart failure. A form of heart ...

Measurements of epigenetic age can highlight modifiable risk factors for pregnancy complications and later illness.

Does stress during pregnancy impact children's cell aging, and does race matter? The answer is yes, according to a new UC San Francisco study published Dec. 2 in Psychological Medicine. UCSF ...

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rare form of heart failure that occurs in women during late pregnancy or early postpartum, and one in which the cause remains largely unknown In a new study, Mass ...