Earlier onset of puberty in girls: relation to increased body mass index and race.

By P. Kaplowitz, E. Slora, R. Wasserman, S. Pedlow, M. Herman-Giddens. Pediatrics, 2001

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Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Reproductive Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• Is obesity associated with early sexual maturation? A comparison of the association in American boys versus girls. (2002, background): “6,12 Limited research has been conducted in boys and male adults to study the association between SM and obesity.”
• The timing of normal puberty and the age limits of sexual precocity: variations around the world, secular trends, and changes after migration. (2003, methodology): “(187) used the growth data from the PROS study (6) to calculate the sd scores (SDS) or Z scores of BMI.”
• The Lifespan Human Connectome Project in Development: A large-scale study of brain connectivity development in 5–21 year olds (2018, positive): “Longitudinal sampling begins earlier for females than males because of differences in pubertal onset by sex (females initiating ~1 year earlier than males, on average) (Kaplowitz et al., 2001; Sizonenko, 1978).”