Investigators at Division of Environmental Health Describe Findings in Precocious Puberty (A new efficient method to monitor precocious puberty…

Investigators at Division of Environmental Health Describe Findings in Precocious Puberty (A new efficient method to monitor precocious puberty nationwide in France)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Investigators publish new report on Endocrine System Diseases and Conditions - Precocious Puberty. According to news originating from St. Maurice, France, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Clinical precocious puberty (PP) is a disease, reputed to be on the increase and suspected to be linked to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) exposure. based epidemiological data are lacking in France and scarce elsewhere."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Division of Environmental Health, "We accessed the feasibility of monitoring PP nationwide in France in this context, using a nationwide existing database, the French National Health Insurance Information System. Here, we present the method we used with a step-by-step approach to build and select the most suitable indicator. We built three indicators reflecting the incidence of idiopathic central precocious puberty (ICPP), the most frequent form of PP, and we compared these indicators according to their strengths and weaknesses with respect to surveillance purposes. Monitoring ICPP in France proved feasible using a Drug reimbursement indicator. Our method is cost efficient and highly relevant in public health surveillance. Our step-by-step approach proved helpful to achieve this project and could be proposed for assessing the feasibility of monitoring health outcomes of interest using existing data bases. 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. 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."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "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."

For more information on this research see: A new efficient method to monitor precocious puberty nationwide in France. European Journal of Pediatrics, 2018;177(2):251-255. European Journal of Pediatrics can be contacted at: Springer, 233 Spring St, New York, NY 10013, USA. (Springer - www.springer.com; European Journal of Pediatrics - www.springerlink.com/content/0340-6199/)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from A. Rigou, Sante Public France, Div Environm Hlth, F-94415 St Maurice, France. Additional authors for this research include J. Le Moal, J. Leger, A. Le Tertre and J.C. Carel (see also Endocrine System Diseases and Conditions - Precocious Puberty).

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-017-3012-y. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: St. Maurice, France, Europe, Endocrine System Diseases and Conditions, Health and Medicine, Precocious Puberty, Health Insurance, Endocrinology, Epidemiology, Division of Environmental Health.

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