Sexual maturation in East German boys*

Willers, Benno; Engelhardt, Lars Victor von; Pelz, L

doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.1996.tb14152.x

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“…4,5,[13][14][15][16][17] However, the recent studies from the American NHANES III showed that in non-Hispanic white boys median age at G2 was 10.03 years, 18 while in European studies (East Germany) G2 was at 10.8 years. 19 The % of the final height achieved at the age of peak height velocity is higher than that indicated by Greulich and Pyle data. 20 No valid interpretation can be given for this difference but it could be attributed to genetic factors or a secular trend.…”

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Data on pubertal development in Greek boys. A longitudinal study

Pantsiotou¹

2007

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ObJEctIVE: Longitudinal data on boys' puberty evolution are not available in Greece and very few such studies have been reported world-wide. We present data from a longitudinal study on height, weight, bMI and age at the different pubertal stages in Greek boys. DEsIGN: At the start of the study 204 prepubertal boys aged 8-10 years, were enrolled. Measurements were carried out every 3-6 months for 7.5 years. rEsULts: At pubertal stage G2 the mean age and sD was 10.3 (1.0), the height 143.4 cm or 82.3% of final height and the bMI 18.6 kg/m 2 . Mean age at peak height velocity was 13.2 (1.0) years and at final height 17.1 (0.9) years. At peak height velocity, the height accounted for 91.5% of the final height. the time elapsed from the beginning to the end of puberty (duration of pubertal process) was 6.2 (0.6) years. the height gain during puberty was 31.0 (4.0) cm and the weight gain 36.3 (8.1)kg. cONcLUsIONs: Longitudinal data on pubertal development are rather sparse, especially for males. Although the present study was carried out in an urban population of the Athens region, the data could be useful in delineating prognosis of puberty evolution and final height in boys.

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Data on pubertal development in Greek boys. A longitudinal study

Pantsiotou¹

2007

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“…There are many studies examining the sexual maturation of girls; however, the data on sexual maturation of boys are considerably less (Marshall and Tanner 1970, Largo and Prader 1983, Roche, Wellens, Attie et al 1995, Wong, Leung, Law et al 1996, Willers, Engelhardt and Pelz 1996, Fredriks, van Buuren, Burgmeijer et al 2000. As far as we know, there is only one study on pubertal maturation of Greek boys (Batrinos 1974), that was performed in Athens in the late 1960s and in which pubertal rating was not according to Tanner's method.…”

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Sexual maturation of Greek boys

Papadimitriou

Stephanou

Papantzimas

et al. 2002

Annals of Human Biology

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“…Ergebnisse der 1985 in den jetzigen neuen Bundesländern durchgeführten repräsentativen Reifestudie an ca. 18.000 Kindern und Jugendlichen im Alter von 8-16 Jahren zeigen keinen früheren Reifebeginn (Mädchen: Brustentwicklung (B2) 10,9 Jahre, Menarche 12,7 Jahre; Jungen: Genitalentwicklung (G2) 11,1 Jahre, Spermarche 13,8 Jahre [28,29,30,31] [33]. Danach ist das Menarchealter von 13,5 auf 12,2 Jahre und das Spermarchealter von 14,2 Jahre auf 12,5 Jahre gesunken.…”

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