Article archive / October 1, 2012
Originally published: . Volume 4, No. 2. Source pages: 9.
In a September 18, 2012 article on the medical blog Medscape, Emma Hitt, PhD, reported on a study that found obsese children and adolescents to have more bisphenol A (BPA) in their urine than normal weight peers. BPA is a substance found in plastics.
The study was published in the September issue of JAMA. The study included 2838 randomly selected children who were studied over a five-year period.
The report noted that BPA is an endocrine disrupter found in plastic bottles and that previous studies have shown a connection between BPA and obesity in adults.
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