منابع مشابه
Menarcheal age among Indian sportswomen.
The subjects of the study were 85 Indian sportswomen from Delhi and the states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Gujarat, and included outstanding players of cricket, hockey, kho-kho and table-tennis, who were winners of university, state or national championships. A sample of 77 subjects selected at random was used as the control. The recall procedures suggested by Damon and Bajema (1974) were used...
متن کاملAge of menarche in various categories of Indian sportswomen.
Data on the age of menarche has been collected on 264 Indian sportswomen, and 108 girls forming the control group, all hailing from the Punjab, Haryana, chandigarh and Delhi. Outstanding athletes and players of hockey, basketball and volleyball were included. The combined mean age at menarche for sportswomen is 15.21 years and for the control sample is 14.05 years. The differences in the two se...
متن کاملDecline in menarcheal age among Saudi girls
OBJECTIVES To estimate age at menarche and to assess trends in menarcheal age among Saudi women. METHODS A prospective longitudinal study was conducted among healthy prepubertal female school children and adolescents from September 2006 to July 2012 in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Study participants were invited from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Tanner stage, height, weight, body ma...
متن کاملSecular Trends in Menarcheal Age in India-Evidence from the Indian Human Development Survey
BACKGROUND Evidence from a number of countries in Europe and North America point towards the secular declining trend in menarcheal age with considerable spatial variations over the past two centuries. Similar trends were reported in several developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America. However, data corroborating any secular trend in the menarcheal age of the Indian population remai...
متن کاملIs there a secular trend in the menarcheal age of Indian girls?
the different parts of the country, and be influenced by many factors. Maya Bhalla and Srivatsava (6) found a declining trend in the menarcheal age of Kanpur girls. Amrita Bagga and Kulkarni (7) found a mean menarcheal age of 12.6 years in 366 Maharashtrian girls from Poona. They compared this with previous data from Maharashtrian girls and found a lowering of menarcheal age from 1960 onwards, ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Sports Medicine
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0306-3674
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.26.2.129