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The Trends of Puberty Onset among Chinese Children.

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Age of puberty onset is considered to be of gen-eral public health relevance. A downward secular trend in age of puberty onset has now been re-peatedly reported in both developed (1) and devel-oping countries (2). Early puberty onset has been suggested to be a risk factor for a series of diseas-es in later life, including hormone-related cancer, type 2 diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, car-diovascular disease and all-cause mortality. In china, the age of puberty onset among children has changed (2-5) over the last two decades. The trends of puberty onset were characterized by: 1) The puberty timing has been occurring earlier in both genders. In boys, the spermarcheal age was shift to an earlier date from 14.9 years in 1995 to

Source: PubMed

Authors: Xue Zhou, Lishi Zhang

Institutions: Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan University

Language: English

Topic: Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones

Subfield: Reproductive Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2170056957

FWCI: 1.071

Cites: 10

Cited by: 7

Related to: 10