Being a poor and less educated mother is not good for your unborn child

Did we really need a study to tell us that?  Apparently, we did. Researchers looked at umbilical cord blood samples from 54 newborns and found that lower Socioeconomic status and education were highly correlated with shorter newborn telomeres. Interestingly, since we are ‘reset’ to about 15,000 telomere base pairs despite the general age mother and …

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