{"id":6063,"date":"2018-04-24T12:43:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T16:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6063"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:09:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:09:54","slug":"mothers-age-at-childbirth-affects-childs-developmental-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/mothers-age-at-childbirth-affects-childs-developmental-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother\u2019s age at childbirth affects child&#8217;s developmental vulnerability<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children born to the youngest mothers have the highest risk of developmental vulnerabilities at age 5, largely due to socio-economic factors. Although the risk of developmental vulnerabilities declined with every additional year of a mother&#8217;s age up to 30 years, risk increased slightly for children born to mothers aged 35 years and older,\u00a0similar to children born to mothers in their early twenties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosmedicine\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pmed.1002558\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published April 24, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-author: <\/strong>Marni Brownell, University of Manitoba &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:Marni_Brownell@cpe.umanitoba.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Marni_Brownell@cpe.umanitoba.<wbr \/>ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children born to the youngest mothers have the highest risk of developmental vulnerabilities at age 5, largely due to socio-economic factors. Although the risk of developmental vulnerabilities declined with every additional year of a mother&#8217;s age up to 30 years, risk increased slightly for children born to mothers aged 35 years and older,\u00a0similar to children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1zN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6095,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063\/revisions\/6095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}