Age of puberty predicts diseases in later life, find researchers

[alboe]

Source: Press Association via Guardian

The age that children hit puberty has been found to be a significant predictor of their health in later life, researchers say.

The University of Cambridge study confirms previous findings of a link between early puberty in women and heart disease and type 2 diabetes, and has shown for the first time that early puberty in men is also associated with these conditions.

Those who went through puberty relatively early had around 50% higher relative risks for type 2 diabetes and heart disease. However, women and men who went through puberty relatively late had a higher relative risk of developing asthma.

Researchers from the Medical Research Council (MRC) epidemiology unit at the University of Cambridge found that the age at which both men and women begin puberty is associated with a total of 48 different health conditions including irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis, glaucoma, psoriasis and depression – along with early menopause in women.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/18/puberty-age-predicts-diseases-later-life

[xfundy]

1. So, basically, we're all gonna die of something.

Whew, I was worried.

[LiberalElite]

3. I hit puberty around

12 and 3/4 and they don't mention that age. I'm gonna live forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gvstn]

4. Me too!

'xcept for the smoking bit.

[CreekDog]

5. That's not what it says

I don't think it makes you look good to mock scientists for studying something like this in some detail in search of answers.

If what you have in comparison to their effort is mockery.

[marble falls]

10. Chasing statistics for conditions that have no solution may be scientific but it isn't....

productive of anything beyond a woo factor. Is this causative to anything or just synchronous? It seems more naval contemplative than important.

Investigating any trivial thing will produce mere answers. I hope "science" is about more than just scoring mere answers to meaningless questions.

[happyslug]

2. So if you are active, you live longer, if you are inactive you die younger, what else is new?

The onset of early puberty is tied in with lack of Activities (Exercise, etc) and adequate food intake (i.e no starving). Thus if you tend to be inactive and eat regularly, you tend to enter puberty earlier in life then someone who is very active and uses almost all of the food intake he or she takes in during such activities. If that tendency continues, you will tend to be inactive as an adult and thus develop heart disease and Diabetes.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6775000

1987 report on rats that exercise delayed puberty:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3115950

Exercise before Puberty prevents osteoporosis later in life.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9525351

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1359/jbmr.1998.13.3.500/full

This just confirm what people have been saying for years, if you learn to exercise early in life, it benefits you as you continue such activities for the rest of your life.

[CreekDog]

6. I hope you're not blaming the victims here

It sure sounds like you're nudging up to doing just that.

You're making a pretty blanket statement that early puberty is because of laziness, basically.

holy cow.

[Thor_MN]

9. I hope you are not blaming the poster for the results of science studies.

It sure sounds like you're nudging up to doing just that.

You're making a pretty blanket statement that they are responsible.

holy cow.

[CreekDog]

13. The poster isn't discussing the results of the studies, he's making up his own results

And I am blaming the poster for those things.

[Thor_MN]

14. Happyslug cited studies on PubMed.gov

In rebuttal you have cited.... your opinion. If you have links to studies that contradict what Happyslug posted, I'm sure we would like to see them.

I have read studies that indicate stress in general is linked to early puberty. Be it food insecurity, living in a war zone, living in dysfunctional households, any stress.

Would you like to accuse me of blaming the kids for their living conditions? That would make as much sense as your first post.

[happyslug]

11. In-activities is to blame not laziness

Children are being driven to school, playgrounds etc when in the pass they use to WALK to such places. Yes, in the effort to protect our children, by driving them everywhere so they can be "safe" we are slowly killing them. To a degree that is to blame the victim, but it is also an attack on our society that we assume travel is by car not by foot.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Obesity causes earlier puberty in women. At 100 pounds, we become fertile.

So, this is not really news at all.

[LiberalElite]

8. I didn't know that - nt

[marble falls]

12. I did not know that. That's a fact that can be affected scientifically.