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New Study Links Prenatal BPA Exposure to Obesity in Young Girls http://rgn.bz/PZrG
BPA is an industrial chemical that has been used to make plastics and resins since the 1960’s. It’s an endocrine disruptor that mimics estrogen, and it has been linked to breast cancer, obesity, infertility, early puberty in girls, and increased risk for diabetes.
BPA has also been linked to depression and hyperactivity in girls whose mothers were exposed to the chemical during pregnancy. A new study sheds more light on the potential harm posed by prenatal BPA exposure, but this time the research focuses on the substance’s influence on body weight.
Researchers from Columbia University, Johns Hopkins, and the CDC tracked 369 mother-child pairs from the 3rd trimester of pregnancy until the children reached age 7. BPA levels in the mothers’ urine during pregnancy were measured. The height, weight, waist circumference, and body fat of the children as they aged were also measured, as well as their BPA levels.
The team found measurable levels of BPA in the blood of 94% of the pregnant women in the study. Frighteningly, the higher the mother’s BPA exposure was during pregnancy, the more signs of obesity (based on waist circumference compared with height) the girls showed at age 7.
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