Does parity affect mortality among parous women?

Association between parity and risk of suicide among parous women.

BACKGROUND There are limited empirical data to support the theory of a protective effect of parenthood against suicide, as proposed by Durkheim in 1897. I conducted this study to examine whether there is an association between parity and risk of death from suicide among women. METHODS The study cohort consisted of 1,292,462 women in Taiwan who had a first live birth between Jan. 1, 1978, and ...

Obesity and weight change related to parity and breast-feeding among parous women in Brazil.

OBJECTIVE Studies on the independent role of parity in long-term body weight change in economically developing countries are scarce and inconclusive, and only a few studies have taken into account patterns of breast-feeding. This association was examined in a national cross-sectional survey representative of Brazilian parous women. DESIGN AND SETTING The survey conducted in 1996 measured wome...

Does Dam Parity Affect Progeny Health Status?

Parity and Risk of Death From Lung Cancer Among a Cohort of Premenopausal Parous Women in Taiwan

BACKGROUND We examined the association between parity and risk of lung cancer. METHODS The study cohort consisted of all women with a record of a first singleton birth in the Taiwanese Birth Register between 1978 and 1987. We tracked each woman from the time of their first childbirth to 31 December 2009. Follow-up was terminated when the mother died, when she reached age 50 years, or on 31 De...

Drug use in pregnancy among parous Scandinavian women

The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of drug use in 1945 parous pregnant Scandinavian women, to determine the most common drug categories, and to describe changes in drug use throughout pregnancy. The women were interviewed about drug use by a specially trained midwife at five different occasions during pregnancy: at gestational week 17, 25, 33, 37, and on admission fo...