A 12-year study of menarcheal age.

Roberts, D. F.; Dann, T. C.

doi:10.1136/jech.29.1.31

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“…The longitudinal British National Child Development Study found that a significantly larger proportion of young women with early menarche were heavier for their stature than those with late menarche (Stark ct al., 1989). The analysis of recalled menarcheal ages in a series of 11 successive cross-sectional surveys of entering students at the University of Warwick (1971Warwick ( -1982 together with a similar 12-year study of menarcheal age in girls at the University College of Swansea (1959Swansea ( -1970, showed that girls with a lsreater ponderal index (stature/ (weight) and, therefore, a more linear physique, tended to have later menarcheal ages Roberts, 1973, 1984;Roberts and Dann, 1975). In a discussion of secular changes in age at menarche and adult stature in Hebridean women born between 1920 and 1949, it was reported that, when year of birth was held constant, the later maturing girls became taller adults (Clegg, 1980).…”

Section: Discussion the Results From Both The 1970 And 1987mentioning

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Body size and fatness in young adults in relation to age at menarche

Wellens

Malina

Roche

et al. 1992

American J Hum Biol

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The relationships among age at menarche, body size, and body composition were considered in university students surveyed in 1970 (n = 342) and 1987 (n = 109). Recalled ages at menarche, stature, weight, and the triceps skinfold thickness were measured. Subjects ranged in age from 17.5 to 22.5 years in both surveys and were divided into four categories by age at menarche: before 12 years, 12.0 through 12.99 years, 13.0 through 13.99 years, and older than 14 years. In both the 1970 and 1987 surveys, later maturers had significantly more linear physiques than those experiencing menarche earlier. Late maturers also showed a tendency to lower values for the body mass index (BMI) and triceps skinfold compared with early maturers. Comparative data for women of the same age from the Fels Longitudinal Study (n = 234) showed similar findings. Women who reached menarche at ages older than 14 years were significantly taller than women with menarcheal ages less than 13 years. Women with menarcheal ages younger than 12 years were significantly heavier and had higher BMIs than those from any older menarcheal category. They also had significantly thicker triceps skinfolds than those with menarcheal ages older than 14 years. © 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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Section: Discussion the Results From Both The 1970 And 1987mentioning

confidence: 98%

Body size and fatness in young adults in relation to age at menarche

Wellens

Malina

Roche

et al. 1992

American J Hum Biol

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“…Of particular concern is the difference in average birth order. Two large-scale studies of women have found that birth order is negatively correlated with menarche; that is, as birth order increases, age of first menstruation decreases (Dann and Roberts, 1984;Roberts and Dann, 1975). If age of puberty also decreases as birth order increases in men, then homosexual men might have an earlier puberty than heterosexual men merely because they have a later birth order.…”

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“…The interaction term was added in case the relation between birth order and age of puberty should be different for homosexual and heterosexual males. In this analysis, we used the simple birth rank as our measure of birth order, to make our investigation more similar to the previously cited research on females (Dann and Roberts, 1984;Roberts and Dann, 1975).…”

Section: Age Of Pubertymentioning

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Biodemographic comparisons of homosexual and heterosexual men in the kinsey interview data

Blanchard¹,

Bogaert²

1996

Arch Sex Behav

103

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Relations between sexual orientation and several biodemographic variables previously reported to differentiate between homosexual and heterosexual men were examined. Subjects were 4948 white, postpubertal males, who were never reared in foster homes, orphanages, or other institutions, and were never arrested or convicted on criminal charges. These were dichotomously classified as homosexual (n = 844) or heterosexual (n = 4104). Data came from survey interviews conducted by staff members of The Kinesey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction from 1938 to 1963. Results extended previous findings that, compared with heterosexual controls, homosexual men have a later birth order, an earlier onset of puberty, and a lower body weight. Sexual orientation was weakly related or unrelated to height, paternal age, and sibling sex ratio. A more detailed analysis of the late birth order of the homosexual group showed that homosexual men have a greater number of older brothers than do heterosexual men, but they do not have a greater number of older sisters, once their number of older brothers has been taken into account.

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“…In an attempt to detect the first signs of any slackening of the trend in Britain, a succession of cross-sectional surveys of university girls was undertaken. The results not only identified the end of the downward trend in the first group of studies in Swansea (Roberts & Dann, 1975), but also the subsequent studies in Warwick (Dann & Roberts, 1984) suggested that mean menarcheal age was once again increasing. The implication, that this may be a first indication of some corresponding environmental deterioration, gives some cause for concern.…”

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Menarcheal age in University of Warwick young women

Dann

Roberts

1993

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Data from the final 16 years of a 28-year ongoing survey of menarcheal age are reported. From 1971 onwards, recalled aged at menarche was recorded for all young women entering the University of Warwick. These data show that mean menarcheal age is increasing, a trend which is independent of father's occupation, family size, position of girl in the family, and physique. This continues a similar upward tendency noted in a preceding study in Swansea. It appears that the downward trend to earlier age at menarche of the earlier decades of this century has been replaced by one in the opposite direction.

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A 12-year study of menarcheal age.

Cited by 18 publications

References 12 publications

Body size and fatness in young adults in relation to age at menarche

Body size and fatness in young adults in relation to age at menarche

Biodemographic comparisons of homosexual and heterosexual men in the kinsey interview data

Menarcheal age in University of Warwick young women

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