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Sexual Precocity after Immigration from Developing Countries to Belgium: Evidence of Previous Exposure to Organochlorine Pesticides
Krstevska-Konstantinova, M.; Charlier, Corinne; Craen, M. et al.
2001In Human Reproduction, 16 (5), p. 1020-6
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Keywords :
adopted children; organochlorine pesticides; p,p'-DDE; precocious puberty
Abstract :
[en] In a retrospective auxological study of 145 patients seen in Belgium during a 9-year period for treatment of precocious puberty, 28% appeared to be foreign children (39 girls, one boy) who immigrated 4 to 5 years earlier from 22 developing countries, without any link to a particular ethnic or country background. The patients were either adopted (n = 28) or non-adopted (n = 12), the latter having normal weight and height at immigration and starting early puberty without evidence of earlier deprivation. This led to the hypothesis that the mechanism of precocious puberty might involve previous exposure to oestrogenic endocrine disrupters. A toxicological plasma screening for eight pesticides detected p,p'-DDE, which is derived from the organochlorine pesticide DDT. Median p,p'-DDE concentrations were respectively 1.20 and 1.04 ng/ml in foreign adopted (n = 15) and non-adopted (n = 11) girls with precocious puberty, while 13 out of 15 Belgian native girls with idiopathic or organic precocious puberty showed undetectable concentrations (<0.1 ng/ml). A possible relationship between transient exposure to endocrine disrupters and sexual precocity is suggested, and deserves further studies in immigrant children with non-advanced puberty.
Disciplines :
Pharmacy, pharmacology & toxicology
Pediatrics
Author, co-author :
Krstevska-Konstantinova, M.
Charlier, Corinne  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de pharmacie > Chimie toxicologique
Craen, M.
Du Caju, M.
Heinrichs, C.
de Beaufort, C.
Plomteux, Guy ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Services généraux (Faculté de médecine) > Relations académiques et scientifiques (Médecine)
Bourguignon, Jean-Pierre ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Pédiatrie
Language :
English
Title :
Sexual Precocity after Immigration from Developing Countries to Belgium: Evidence of Previous Exposure to Organochlorine Pesticides
Publication date :
May 2001
Journal title :
Human Reproduction
ISSN :
0268-1161
eISSN :
1460-2350
Publisher :
Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
16
Issue :
5
Pages :
1020-6
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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