Maturational tempo differences in relation to the timing of the onset of puberty in girls

Pantsiotou, S; Papadimitriou, Anastasios; Douros, Konstantinos; Priftis, Kostas Ν.; Nicolaidou, Polyxeni; Fretzayas, Andrew

doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.2007.00598.x

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“…The correlation in girls is reported from À .28 to À .62 (Martí-Hennenberg & Vizmanos, 1997). A similar association was noted by Pantsiotou et al (2008), although high attrition in the longitudinal study raises concern about a biased sample.…”

Section: Tempo Of Pubertysupporting

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Puberty and Its Measurement: A Decade in Review

Dorn

Biro

2011

J of Research on Adolesc

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Since the early 1980s, the focus on the importance of puberty to adolescent development has continued with variability in the methodology selected to measure puberty. To capture the relevant and important issues regarding the measurement of puberty in the last decade, this paper will address (1) the neuroendocrine aspects of puberty and its components, as well as the timing of puberty and its tempo; (2) why puberty is measured, including the relevance of puberty and its timing to health and development as well as the relevance of being off-time, that is, early or late with respect to a reference group; (3) the measurement of puberty and its methodology with respect to pubertal staging by physical examination, self-report measures, and their agreement with other methods and measures, hormones and their methods of measurement, and comparison of hormone concentrations to pubertal stage; and (4) recommendations for what is needed in the next decade regarding the measurement of puberty.

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Section: Tempo Of Pubertysupporting

confidence: 71%

Puberty and Its Measurement: A Decade in Review

Dorn

Biro

2011

J of Research on Adolesc

296

236

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“…Furthermore, there are data to suggest a change in the maturational tempo of girls during the last 25 yr. As it was recently denoted (14) from data gathered from women born between 1977 and 1979, only moderate correlation (0.37-0.38) between menarche and onset of puberty was found, whereas earlier studies conducted on women born between 1920 and the 1960s reported much higher correlations (0.64 -0.86). Indeed, studies carried out during the last 10 yr in Spain, the United States, and Greece (6,15,16) showed that early maturing girls present a compensatory delay in pubertal progression that could explain the moderate correlation between the age at menarche and at pubertal onset.…”

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“…The girls were examined at 6-month intervals in the school setting as part of a longitudinal study on growth and development of girls, details of which have been published previously (6).…”

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Timing of Pubertal Onset in Girls: Evidence for Non-Gaussian Distribution

Papadimitriou

Pantsiotou

Douros

et al. 2008

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

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“…Such difference may be attributed to several reasons as those inherent to sex and subjects' physiology, the trend in a decrease in SM onset, more evident in females, as is shown by a decrease in the menarcheal age in industrialized countries and those under development 33 . Some authors and international institutions have proposed a review of these age parameters and the use of 25 percent in SM starting age distribution for the classification of EP [33][34][35] . The lack of information referring to the onset of the SM process in all subjects blocked the use of existing cut-off points.…”

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Association among sexual maturation, overweight and central adiposity in children and adolescents at two schools in são Paulo

Oliveira

Frutuoso

Gambardella

2014

J. Hum. Growth Dev.

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The objective of this study was to assess the association among sexual maturation (SM), overweight and central adiposity in children and adolescents. A total of 617 children and adolescents age 8 to 18 years old participated in the longitudinal study. Three samples were collected including data on weight, height and waist circumference. Overweight was classi-fied based on critical values for body mass index (BMI) adopted for Brazilian children and teenagers. SM stage (SMS) was done by self-assessment in three children and adolescent samples. Participants were distributed in quartiles based on SMS and sex. Accelerated-maturing subjects were compared to others. Data was analyzed by linear regression and logistic regression. We found a negative association between BMI z-score and onset of SM in boys, whereas for girls relatively-accelerated SM was positively associated to overweight and values of BMI z-score. Relatively-accelerated maturing girls showed more central adi-posity. The research concluded that accelerated SM was associated to overweight and high-er increase in BMI for both sexes, highlighting the importance of identifying SMS in nutri-tional assessment for children and teenagers.

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Maturational tempo differences in relation to the timing of the onset of puberty in girls

Cited by 62 publications

References 25 publications

Puberty and Its Measurement: A Decade in Review

Puberty and Its Measurement: A Decade in Review

Timing of Pubertal Onset in Girls: Evidence for Non-Gaussian Distribution

Association among sexual maturation, overweight and central adiposity in children and adolescents at two schools in são Paulo

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