André Madsen

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André Madsen er molekylærbiolog, ph.d. og postdoktor ved Hormonlaboratoriet, Avdeling for medisinsk biokjemi og farmakologi ved Helse Bergen.

Articles by André Madsen

Puberty starts earlier

Ingvild Særvold Bruserud,
Ninnie Helén Bakken Oehme,
André Madsen,
Karen Rosendahl,
Robert Bjerknes,
Mathieu Roelants,
Pétur B. Júlíusson

24.10.2022: New Norwegian data show that the median age for the onset of puberty in Norwegian girls is six months earlier than previously believed. New growth curves for Norwegian girls and boys were published in 2009 (1). At that point, there were no data available for the pubertal development of children and...

Is puberty starting earlier than before?

Ninnie Oehme,
Ingvild Særvold Bruserud,
André Madsen,
Pétur Benedikt Júlíusson

31.08.2020: Entering puberty early or late can have long-term effects on health. We do not know enough about what induces puberty and what factors contribute to its onset. Over the past three decades, studies from Europe and the United States have shown a tendency towards earlier puberty onset in girls, with a...