“Type 2 diabetes is much more aggressive in children and we don’t understand why,” said Ashley Shoemaker, M.D., MSCI, assistant professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes at Vanderbilt. Shoemaker and her colleagues direct …
We’re at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas talking to Dr. Grace Tannin, a pediatric endocrinologist. She’s telling us it is a fact that puberty is starting earlier. Breast development, in some girls, happens a year sooner than experts once thought.
Bruce Buckingham, MD, Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital in California explained, “This is a car analogy: that you are still driving, putting on the gas, putting on the brakes, and making the turns …