Older fathers have high chances of having children with some type of deformity

The study, which has forwarded millions of babies, has concluded that the risk of birth-related complications is greater when fathers are 30 years of age, while apparently growing from 45 years of age, transmits Telegrafi.

Already the deceny is rooted in the thought that women's reproductive ability declines with age, but the youngest study published in the British Medical Journal shows that males may also have problems that come with age.

Experts up to this point have mainly studied the impact of women's health on newborn children, but their study shows that child health depends on both parents, and fatherhood also plays a major role, says University Stanford Medical School professor Michael Eisenberg.

Compared with fathers between the ages of 25 and 35, infants whose parents are fathers aged 35 to 45 have had five percent of their greatest probability of being born before or with small body weight.

In males aged 45, 14 percent of children have been admitted to intensive care, 14 percent have been born earlier, 18 percent of children have a greater chance of being ill with epilepsy, and 14 percent are born with low weight.

If the father is older than 50 years of age, the likelihood that their children will need help directly during the breathing after birth has increased by ten percent, while the chances that they have needed intensive care have increased by 28 percent.

It was truly surprising and the discovery that there is a real connection between fatherhood and the chances of mother developing diabetes during pregnancy, says Eisenberg.

Male partners older than 45 have had 28 percent higher probability of developing pregnancy diabetes than did fathers aged 25 to 35.

Eisenberg has also said that possible biological mechanisms that lead to this situation are unclear, but he doubts that the mother's placenta has a role in it. /Telegraphy/