High BMI triggers early puberty

High BMI should trigger sexual maturity in children

05/11/2013

The age of entry, from which children come into the Pübertät, may need to be corrected. Because overweight could, according to scientists from Cicinnati in the federal Ohio, be a reason for early sexual maturity. In an article already published on Monday about a study in the journal „Pediatrics“, was pointed to a link between body mass index and early breast growth in girls.

Thus, increased BMI has provided "the strongest sign" of early breast growth, said Frank Biro, lead investigator. So apparently the counts „epidemic obesity“ to the main causes that bus development in girls starts earlier and earlier. Interantional studies have been pointing towards an earlier onset of puberty for years. This conspicuousness was observed in a breastfeeding study, which interviewed a total of 1239 girls from New York and the San Francisco area.

When the investigations began in 2004, the subjects were between six and eight years old. In the course of regular controls, it has been found that breast cancer starts in girls with white skin on average 9.7 years. This is four months earlier compared to a study from 1997. African American girls grew breasts even earlier. The scientists emphasized that such early onset sexual maturity „significant psychosocial and biological“ Can have an impact. In addition, there is an increase in the risk of icy canker or hypertension. Another report has also suggested that the causes leading to premature sexual maturity have not been fully explored. Even unknown environmental factors probably play a decisive role here. (Fr)