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Are there more health risks if a woman never had a child, or more risks if she had one or more children?

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Depends more on age: In general, health risks are more related to age and patients general health rather the the number of children she has had until she exceeds 5 deliveries. Certain problems such as pre-eclamsia are more common in women having their first child especially at the upper and lower limits of age.

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Answered 8/12/2015

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