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Early Puberty On The Rise

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Early puberty has become a very worrying public health issue of late. Our journalists headed to Copenhagen, where endocrinologist Anders Juul has been documenting the phenomenon for years. Pr. Juul is Head of the Centre for Research on Endocrine Disruption in Adults and Children. Over the past fifteen years, the number of girls consulting at the Rigshospitalet has increased from fifty per year to three hundred. Hormone-based treatments can slow down and temporarily put a stop to these early puberty symptoms. But what about their causes? The endocrine disrupters in our environment are being pointed out, and many studies support this hypothesis. However, public authorities are still reluctant to press industrialists to curb their massive use of such disruptors in their products...
Year
2019
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RTS
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HD
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