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(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that exposure to three common chemical classes -- phenols, phthalates and phytoestrogens -- in young girls may disrupt the timing of pubertal development, and put girls at risk for health complications later in life.

The study, the first to examine the effects of these chemicals on pubertal development, is currently published online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 8. The chronic, incurable disease increases the Supreme Court nominee's risk for several serious health complications.