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frasier star Kelsey Grammer has announced that he is expecting his eighth child. At the age of 70 – an age that is considered far beyond “advanced parental age” by doctors.
this will happen to encourage This is the fourth child of the actor and his wife, 46-year-old film producer Kayte Walsh. The pair include Faith, 12, Gabriel, 10, and James, eight.
“It was like three days ago,” Grammer said. Pod Meets World Podcast from earlier this week. “Christopher, he has just joined the family.”
Grammer is certainly not the oldest father-to-be, nor the oldest father in Hollywood. Actors Robert De Niro and Al Pacino religious person Prasidh, became the father of children at the age of 79 and 83 respectively.
But only fathers over the age of 35 are more likely to have children with adverse birth outcomes, according to Stanford Medicine researchersAnd researchers at Rutgers University say those over the age of 45 have a higher risk of pregnancy complications, premature and late birth, neonatal seizures and birth defects.
The older the father, the greater the risk for these and other conditions.
“For example, men who were 45 or older were 14 percent more likely to have a premature baby, and men 50 or older were 28 percent more likely to have a baby that required admission to a neonatal intensive care unit,” the researchers said, citing a previous study of more than 40 million births.
Fathers’ age can also affect their partners’ health, increasing mothers’ risk of developing diabetes and the life-threatening complication preeclampsia.
Dr. Michael Eisenberg, associate professor of urology, said in 2018, “We look at maternal factors in evaluating associated birth risks, but this study shows that raising a healthy baby is a team sport, and the father’s age also contributes to the baby’s health.”
This also happens in babies born to older men Increased risk of cancer in childhoodAutism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia. However, according to doctors, these diseases are caused by a combination of genetic and non-genetic factors. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
Experts have linked these results to a decline in rates of the male sex hormone – testosterone Naturally poor sperm and semen quality,
“The risk of male infertility increases as paternal age increases, and it appears that other adverse changes in sperm may also occur with aging,” said Gloria Bachman, director of the Women’s Health Institute at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
“For example, just as people lose muscle strength, flexibility and stamina with age, in men, sperm also lose ‘fitness’ over the course of the life cycle.”
Still, having an older father does not mean that the child will automatically develop any of these conditions.
Eisenberg compared the risk to buying a lottery ticket.
“If you buy two lottery tickets instead of one, your chances of winning double, that is, it increases by 100 percent,” he said. “But that’s a relative increase. Since your chances of winning the lottery were very low, it’s still unlikely that you’re going to win the lottery.”
The age at which many men become fathers in America is increasing. it 3.5 years growth The number of babies born to fathers older than 45 and older has increased 10 percent over the past 40 years between 1972 and 2015.