Weight Status in Young Girls and the Onset of Puberty

2007348 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Joyce M. Lee

Danielle P. Appugliese · Boston University

Niko Kaciroti · University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Robert F. Corwyn · Arkansas Department of Education

Robert H. Bradley · Arkansas Department of Education

Julie C. Lumeng · University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Abstract

Higher BMI z score in girls as young as 36 months of age and higher rate of change of BMI between 36 months old and grade 1, a period well before the onset of puberty, are associated with earlier puberty, which suggests that increasing rates of obesity in the United States may result in an earlier average age of onset of puberty for US girls.

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Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Birth, Development, and Health Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones

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Published in: PEDIATRICS

Volume 119, Issue 3, pp. e624-e630

DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-2188

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 29.15

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