The onset age of pubertal changes varies widely among girls and has undergone changes over time around the world. This study aimed to determine the age of onset of puberty in healthy Iranian girls living in Isfahan province.This cross- sectional study was conducted among 13,886 students aged 6...
The onset of puberty varies among individuals. Puberty usually occurs in girls between the ages of 10 and 14, while in boys it generally occurs later, between the ages of 12 and 16. In some African-American girls, puberty begins earlier, at about age 9, meaning that puberty occurs from ...
This age difference can be because that female bonobos start puberty and reach adult bodyweight earlier than female chimpanzees (Behringer et al., 2014; Leigh and Shea, 1996), despite a similar weaning age (Lee et al., 2020). Nonetheless, even accounting for that the earlier growth and ...
Heat detection was assumed to have a sensitivity of 0.6 and a specificity of 0.999 [16]; the conception probability was 0.4 [17]; and the mean age of onset of puberty was 435 days based on imported farm data (see Supplementary Information for further details). The culling or sale of ...
Puberty is but one of these adolescent transitions. In humans, the onset of the biological changes associated with puberty often has been considered to signal the onset of adolescence (e.g. Ref. [409]), although the timing of puberty within the adolescent period varies notably among human ...
In fact, for many people, such as those enrolled in higher education, the age change from 19 to 20 has little special significance, coming as it does in the middle of the college years. For them, more substantial changes may occur when they leave college and enter the workforce, which ...
Intracranial volume is driven by brain growth, as it is the enlarging brain that determines the expansion of the skull.3,4 The growing brain reaches its maximum size at approximately 13 years of age.5 Therefore, brain development must be stunted in patients with schizophrenia before that time....
The timing of puberty varies between the sexes: In females, the normal onset of puberty ranges from 8 to 13 years, averaging 9–10. Thelarche is the beginning of puberty with breast buds under the areola in Tanner stage 2. Pubarche is 1.5 years later with the onset of pubic and ...
Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with health (physical and mental) and cognitive ability. Understanding and ameliorating the problems of low SES have long been goals of economics and sociology; in recent years, these have also become goals of neu
• Puberty blockers are currently being given to transgender or questioning children to delay the onset of physical traits that don't match with their gender identity. What are the effects of this policy? Would you consider choosing this for your own child? • Most LGBTQ children today are...