The Timing of Normal Puberty and the Age Limits of Sexual Precocity
Variations around the World, Secular Trends, and Changes after Migration
Bibliographic Data
During the past decade, possible advancement in timing of puberty has been reported in the United States. In addition, early pubertal development and an increased incidence of sexual precocity have been noticed in children, primarily girls, migrating for foreign adoption in several Western European countries. These observations are raising the issues of current differences and secular trends in timing of puberty in relation to ethnic, geographical, and socioeconomic background. None of these factors provide an unequivocal explanation for the earlier onset of puberty seen in the United States. In the formerly deprived migrating children, refeeding and catch-up growth may prime maturation. However, precocious puberty is seen also in some nondeprived migrating children. Attention has been paid to the changing milieu after migration, and recently, the possible role of endocrine- disrupting chemicals from the environment has been considered. These observations urge further study of the onset of puberty as a possible sensitive and early marker of the interactions between environmental conditions and genetic susceptibility that can influence physiological and pathological processes.
Biology · Ethnic group · Hormone · Political science · Population · Precocious puberty · Secular variation · Sexual maturity · Socioeconomic status · Birth, Development, and Health · Demography · Endocrinology · Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors · Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability in Cebu, Philippines
Genetic confounding of the relationship between father absence and age at menarche
Age at Menarche and Sexual Debut Among Young Filipino Women
Youth Mobility, Migration, and Health Before and After the Black Death
Girl Body Composition according to pubertal status. Methodology variation
Puberty Signs in Islamic Jurisprudence and Advanced Medical Technology
Influence of Childhood Adversity and Infection on Timing of Menarche in a Multiethnic Sample of Women
Manganese and Lead Exposure and Early Puberty Onset in Children Living near a Ferromanganese Alloy Plant
Overweight and stunting in migrant Hispanic children in the USA
Reference Values of Arm Span and Arm Span to Height Ratio of Japanese Population in Childhood and Adolescence
Modeling Pubertal Growth Variability in Schoolchildren From Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Edad de menarquia y bienestar en mujeres de Valparaíso, Chile (1851-1895)
The juvenile transition
Adults at 12? Trends in puberty and their public health consequences
European Medicines Agency policies for clinical trials leave women unprotected
Susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence in adolescence
The relationship between pubertal timing and under‐nutrition in rural Pakistan
The Adulterated Children of Child Soldier Narratives
Accounting for the Effect Of Health on Economic Growth
Impact of fathers on daughters' age at menarche
Puberty and Its Measurement
Cognitive Control Difficulties Differentiate Callous-Unemotional Traits from Conduct Problems
The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women
PubertyThis chapter is based in part on the chapter by Susman and Dorn .
Puberty in Girls
Environmental Influences
Is there an epidemic of child or adolescent depression?
Nutrition in adolescents
Critical windows for nutritional interventions against stunting
Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
Pubertal transitions in health
Evolution, development and timing of puberty
Assessing Risk for Sexual Recidivism
Trends in psychopathology across the adolescent years
Adolescence
Experimental Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Program
Secular Changes in the Age of Menarche of Rural and Urban Girls from an Industrial Region of Poland in Relation to Family Structure
The Inclusion of Other-Sex Peers in Peer Networks and Sense of Peer Integration in Early Adolescence
Negative feelings about the timing of first sexual intercourse
The Assessment of Brain Volume Differences in Idiopathic Central Precocious Puberty Girls; Comparison of Age-Matched Girls and Normal Puberty Girls
Study protocol for PRISE
Early sexual maturation, central adiposity and subsequent overweight in late adolescence. A four-year follow-up of 1605 adolescent Norwegian boys and girls
Secular trends in age at menarche in Norwegians born from 1840 to 2008
Decline in age at menarche among Spanish women born from 1925 to 1962
Age at Menarche, Growth Velocity, and Adiposity Indices in Italian Girls Aged 10 to 14
A secular trend in age at menarche in Yunnan Province, China
Secular Trends in Height, Body Mass and Mean Menarche Age in Romanian Children and Adolescents, 1936–2016
Self-Perception and Self-Acceptance Are Related to Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors in Catalan Adolescents
Age at menarche and its relationship to body mass index among adolescent girls in Kuwait
Evaluation of the prevalence of adolescent scoliosis and its associated factors in Gansu Province, China
Prevalence of scoliosis and congenital heart disease based on school screening in Jinghong City, Yunnan Province
Environmental Endocrine-Disrupting Chemical Exposure
Are concepts of adolescence from the Global North appropriate for Africa? A debate
Characteristics of Menarcheal Age, Menstrual Hygiene and Socio-Demographic Factors in Girls with Down Syndrome in Morocco
Growth and socio‐economic status, influence on the age at menarche in school going girls
Annual Research Review
Use of upper arm anthropometry, upper arm muscle area-by-height (Uamah) and midupper- arm-circumference (Muac)-for-height as indicators of body composition and nutritional status among children
A comparison of repeat cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the Compass study
Secular trends in weight, stature, and body mass index in Nova Scotia, Canada
Secular trend and social variation in age at menarche among Polish schoolgirls before and after the political transformation
What does the mean menarcheal age mean?—An analysis of temporal pattern in variability in a historical swiss population from the 19th and 20th centuries
Mean age at menarche and climate variables on a global scale
Does the number of sex partners affect educational attainment? Evidence from female respondents to the Add Health
Stunting later in childhood and outcomes as a young adult
Puberty in modernizing Kazakhstan
Timing of puberty and reserve capacity in adolescence as pathways to educational level in adulthood—a longitudinal study
Biosocial correlates of age at menarche in a British cohort
Timing of pubertal growth and menarche in indigenous Qom girls of Argentina
Are Americans shorter (partly) because they are fatter? A comparison of US and Dutch children's height and BMI values
Age of menarche and nutritional status of indigenous and non-indigenous adolescents in the Araucanía Region of Chile
Voice change as a new measure of male pubertal timing
References for growth and pubertal development from birth to 21 years in Flanders, Belgium
Early puberty, medicalisation and the ideology of normality
Adaptation to Transition
Other-Sex Relationship Stress and Sex Differences in the Contribution of Puberty to Depression
Beliefs About Sex and Parent–Child–Church Sex Communication Among Church-Based African American Youth
School Influences on Adolescent Depression
Timing of puberty in boys and girls
Twenty Years Later
A critical analysis of Unesco's International Technical Guidance on school-based education for puberty and sexuality
Responding to parental objections to school sexuality education
Showing puberty
Staff perceptions of support for early menarche in Australian primary schools
Secular trends in age at menarche in 20th century Mexico
Maternal capital and the metabolic ghetto
Is age of menarche directly related to vitamin D levels
Longitudinal analysis of cortisol changes during pubertal development in indigenous Qom girls
Association between age at menarche and autistic traits in Turkish university students
Association between age at menarche and cardiometabolic risk among Samoan adults
Medieval menarche
Generational trends in the transition to womanhood in lowland rural Nepal
Secular trend in age at menarche in indigenous and nonindigenous women in Chile
Immigrant generation status and its association with pubertal timing and tempo among H ispanic girls and boys
Association of prepubertal obesity with pubertal development in Chinese girls and boys
DHEAS patterning across childhood in three sub‐Saharan populations
Is puberty starting earlier in urban South Africa
Detrimental psychological outcomes associated with pubertal timing in adolescent boys
Detrimental psychological outcomes associated with early pubertal timing in adolescent girls
Neither antecedent nor consequence
The tempo of human childhood
Menarcheal age in University of Warwick young women
Height and Weight at Menarche and a Hypothesis of Critical Body Weights and Adolescent Events
The Concepts of Stress and Stress System Disorders
Overweight Prevalence and Trends for Children and Adolescents
Size at Birth Predicts Age at Menarche
Variations in the Pattern of Pubertal Changes in Boys
Secondary Sexual Characteristics and Menses in Young Girls Seen in Office Practice
Age at Menarche and Racial Comparisons in US Girls
Prevalence and trends of overweight among preschool children in developing countries
Evidence for a Secular Trend in Age of Menarche
Fetal nutrition and cardiovascular disease in adult life
Continuing Positive Secular Growth Change in the Netherlands 1955–1997
Increasing Prevalence of Overweight Among US Adults
Clinical longitudinal standards for height, weight, height velocity, weight velocity, and stages of puberty.
Childhood Experience, Interpersonal Development, and Reproductive Strategy
Clinical longitudinal standards for height and height velocity for North American children
A halt in the secular trend towards earlier menarche in Denmark
Secular Trend in Age at Menarche in China
Changes in menarcheal age in girls exposed to war conditions
Pubertal development in Caracas upper-middle-class boys and girls in a longitudinal context
A continuous decline in menarcheal age in Denmark
Nutritional status and age at menarche of Senegalese adolescents
The age at menarche in Carabobo, Venezuela with a note on the secular trend
Age at menarche in Greek girls
Intra-pair similarity in physical growth of monozygotic and of dizygotic twins during puberty
Age at menarche in Thai girls
Accuracy of short-term recall of age at menarche
Short Report
Secular shift in menarcheal age of Patiala (India) schoolgirls between 1974 and 1986
Age at menarche and urbanization in Cameroon
Cross-sectional growth study of the child and adolescent population of Catalonia (Spain)
Why did they lie? Socio-economic bias in reporting menarcheal age
Average menarcheal age of higher socioeconomic status urban Cape Coloured girls assessed by means of status quo and recall methods
International Variability of Ages at Menarche and Menopause
Menarcheal age of Turkish girls in Bremen
Les ages a la puberte des filles et des garcons en France. Mesures a partir d'une enquete sur la sexualite des adolescents
| Unique citing works | 129 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,14 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 109 |