منابع مشابه
Birth weight, postnatal growth, and age at menarche.
Larger body size in childhood is correlated with earlier age at menarche; whether birth and infant body size changes are also associated with age at menarche is less clear. The authors contacted female participants enrolled in the New York site of the US National Collaborative Perinatal Project born between 1959 and 1963 (n = 262). This racially and ethnically diverse cohort (38% white, 40% Afr...
متن کاملAge at menarche in schoolgirls with and without excess weight.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the age at menarche of girls, with or without weight excess, attending private and public schools in a city in Southeastern Brazil. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study comparing the age at menarche of 750 girls from private schools with 921 students from public schools, aged between 7 and 18 years. The menarche was reported by the status quo method and age at menarc...
متن کاملHeight and weight at menarche and a hypothesis of menarche.
Frisch, R. E., and Revelle, R. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 695. Height and weight at menarche and a hypothesis of menarche. Height and weight at menarche were estimated by interpolation of longitudinal growth data for 181 girls. Mean weight at menarche, about 48 kg, does not change as menarcheal age increases, whereas mean height increases significantly. Early and late menarch...
متن کاملSize at birth predicts age at menarche.
OBJECTIVE This study examines the relationship of intrauterine growth, measured by size and maturity at birth, to age at menarche, while also considering a wide range of other factors that may affect maturation. The research is motivated by the current debate about the importance of the prenatal environment as a determinant of later disease risk. METHODS Data were collected during the Cebu Lo...
متن کاملSerum Dioxin Concentrations and Age at Menarche
2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), a widespread environmental contaminant, is associated with delays in pubertal development in animal studies. On 10 July 1976, as a result of a chemical explosion, residents of Seveso, Italy, experienced the highest levels of TCDD exposure experienced by a human population. Twenty years later, we initiated the Seveso Women's Health Study (SWHS), a retr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.64.3.383