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There is a new link found by researchers at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry between childhood obesity and the lowering of the age of puberty. Researchers focused on protein SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin). The levels of SHBG are high during ones childhood and decline before puberty, allowing it to happen. The researchers focused on 347 children in Plymouth, UK between the ages of five to 15. Results showed that a child who is heavier at age five has lower levels of SHBG allowing the child to begin puberty earlier. The study showed that hormonal disturbances related to obesity and inflammation could explain the relationship between obesity and the declining age of puberty.
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July 30, 2014
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