Shots - Health Blog Tue September 18, 2012 Link Between BPA And
Childhood Obesity Is Unclear Originally published on Tue
September 18, 2012 8:23 pm BPA could be making kids fat. Or not.
That's the unsatisfying takeaway from the latest study on
bisphenol A — the plastic additive that environmental groups
have blamed for everything from ADHD to prostate disease.
Unfortunately, the science behind those allegations isn't so
clear. And the new study on obesity in children and teens is no
exception. Researchers from New York University looked at BPA
levels in the urine of more than 2,800 people aged 6 through 19.
The team wanted to know whether those with relatively high
levels of BPA were more likely to be obese. But the results,
published today in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, didn't offer a simple answer to that question.
Among white kids and teens, higher BPA levels were associated
with more than twice the risk of obesity. With black and
Hispanic youth, though, BPA levels didn't make a differ