03.10.2017 | Short Communication
A new efficient method to monitor precocious puberty nationwide in France
Erschienen in: European Journal of Pediatrics | Ausgabe 2/2018
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What is known:
• Precocious puberty (PP) is suspected to be related to EDC exposure and it is believed to be on the increase in France and in others countries.
• Very few epidemiologic data on PP are currently available in the world at the national scale.
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What is new:
• This is the first study describing a method to monitor the most frequent form of PP, idiopathic central PP (ICPP) nationwide in a cost-efficient way, using health insurance databases.
• This cost-effective method will allow to estimate and monitor the incidence of ICPP in France and to analyze spatial variations at a very precise scale, which will be very useful to examine the role of environmental exposures, especially to EDCs.
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