By Evanthia Diamanti-Kandarakis,Andrea C. Gore

Endocrine disruption represents essentially the most arguable environmental problems with our time. Mounting facts stemming from greater than 10 years of experimental, epidemiological and scientific reports has reworked the as soon as more often than not discounted topic of endocrine disruptors into a topic of large trouble not just in the medical group yet between society as a whole.  Following preliminary facts from basic study, endocrine disruption in people has now emerged as an enormous scientific challenge.  during this appreciate, puberty, an important developmental level, has been definitively pointed out as a key window of vulnerability with reference to endocrine disruptors.  Written by way of top gurus within the box, Endocrine Disruptors and Puberty deals an attractive and accomplished evaluate of this attention-grabbing and swiftly growing to be problem.  An fundamental source for all clinicians and scientists drawn to this demanding endocrinologic subject, Endocrine Disruptors and Puberty is a well timed contribution that may aid navigate a direction towards realizing the matter and constructing solutions. 

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