Christine Dunkel Schetter, UCLA (IMAGE)

University of California - Los Angeles

Christine Dunkel Schetter, UCLA

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Why do some people age faster than others? A new UCLA-led study indicates that a mother's stress prior to giving birth may accelerate her child's biological aging later in life. A second UCLA-led study from the same research group found that women suffering from high stress during the months and even years before conception -- defined as feeling overwhelmed and unable to cope -- had shorter pregnancies than other women.

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