Most girls who begin puberty early (especially those who begin before age 6) have the rapidly progressive variety. They go through each of the stages (including closure of the growth plates of the bones) at a very rapid pace, and thus lose much of their adult height potential. About 1/3...
Arecent studytook a look at various stages of puberty in girls and its relationship to migraine. The bottom line is that girls who enter pubertyearlymay have a higher risk of migraine. Puberty is a complex change, and it happens in stages. In girls, the change includes breast development, ...
In this issue of Pediatrics, Huamei et al report on a cross-sectional study of 20 654 healthy Chinese girls aged 3 to 19.83 years to identify stages of breast and pubic hair development. The median age for breast Tanner stage 2 was 9.20 years (95% confidence interval: 9.06-9.32) and for...
Telomere length was assessed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction from saliva samples provided by preadolescent girls and mothers of preadolescent youth. Mothers completed a questionnaire about their child's pubertal development to determine concurrent Tanner stages and provided self-reports of her ...
Girls who show clear signs of puberty and its progression before age 8 and boys before age 9 are considered precocious. It affects about 1 out of 5,000 children. Many experts say that on average, puberty is starting earlier in the U.S. than it did in the past. The average age when ...
Adolescents with an earlier onset of puberty were heavier in childhood and had an earlier timing and faster weight gain velocity in late adolescence. The intensity of adolescent weight gain was positively associated with adult BMI and fat mass index (FMI) in females. Early timing of adolescent BM...
BMI during middle-late adulthood as well as in earlier stages of life could be critical for the development of PCa (Hsing, 1996; Giovannucci et al, 1997; Gapstur et al, 2002). However, only a limited number of prospective studies examined the relationship between BMI during early adulthood...
Girls also carry more body fat than boys from birth, so we examined the relation of sex to REE as a possible explanation. SUBJECTS AND METHODS EarlyBird is a nonintervention prospective cohort study of healthy school entrants (x̄ age: 4.9 y) in the city of Plymouth, United Kingdom, ...
3.3. Additional exploratory analyses examining condition-, puberty - and sex-related changes in aperiodic offset and exponent The results of these analyses largely mirrored the results we found for age. However, when both age and pubertal status were entered into the same models, pubertal status wa...
Puberty – the transition from childhood into adolescence – has been identified as a key maturational window of increased risk taking (Collado et al., 2014, Spielberg et al., 2014). Although several interacting theories seek to explain the ways in which pubertal development contributes to risk ...