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ea0020oc6.2 | Paediatric Endocrinology/Bone | ECE2009

Recent decline in age at breast development and prolongation of puberty duration in girls

Aksglaede Lise , Sorensen Kaspar , Petersen Jorgen H , Skakkebaek Niels E , Juul Anders

Objective: Recent publications showing unexpectedly early breast development in American girls created debate worldwide. However, secular trend analyses are often limited by poor data comparability among studies done by different researchers in different time periods and populations. Here, we present new European data, systematically collected from the same region and by one research group at the beginning and end of the recent 15 year period.Methods: Tw...