Childhood environment influences adrenarcheal timing among first-generation Bangladeshi migrant girls to the UK.

Adrenarche is a key early life event that marks middle childhood at approximately 7 years of age. Earlier work with British-Bangladeshi migrant women suggested that environmental conditions experienced before adrenarche influence adult reproductive function. We therefore investigated whether Banglad...

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Main Authors: Lauren C Houghton, Gillian D Cooper, Mark Booth, Osul A Chowdhury, Rebecca Troisi, Regina G Ziegler, Hormuzd A Katki, Robert N Hoover, Gillian R Bentley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4195659?pdf=render