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Puberty is a series of physical development and sexual maturation that aims to achieved reproductive capacity. The hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis has an important role in the normal process of puberty.
Dicky Moch Rizal, Nandia Septiyorini
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Pubertal development in HIV-infected African children on first-line antiretroviral therapy. [PDF]
To estimate age at attaining Tanner stages in Ugandan/Zimbabwean HIV-infected children initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) in older childhood and investigate predictors of delayed puberty, particularly age at ART ...
Prendergast, AJ +10 more
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Delayed Puberty in Girls with Primary Amenorrhea: A Report of Cases
Background:Female puberty starts when the pituitary hormone producing follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH), which will stimulate the ovaries to produce estrogen.
Fatinah Shahab +4 more
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Background It is well known that excess adiposity during childhood may influence pubertal development. However, the extent to which body compositions vary in throughout puberty in boys and girls is currently unknown.
Fang He +5 more
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Functional hypogonadism in adolescence: an overlooked cause of secondary hypogonadism
Hypogonadism is a clinical syndrome resulting from failure to produce physiological concentrations of sex steroid hormones with accompanying symptoms, such as slowed growth and delayed pubertal maturation.
Rebeca Esquivel-Zuniga, Alan D Rogol
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Deleterious variants in intolerant genes reveal new candidates for self-limited delayed puberty. [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: Self-limited delayed puberty (SLDP) is the most common cause of delayed puberty and exhibits high heritability, although few causal genes have been identified. This study aims to identify potential candidate genes associated with SLDP. METHODS:
Rezende RC +22 more
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Delayed puberty and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. Differential diagnosis and treatment [PDF]
This thesis describes a method enabling a prospecrive differential diagnosis to be made berween delayed puberty (DP) and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH).
Snoep, Marinus Cornelis
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Delayed puberty secondary to hypogonadism is commonly seen in sickle cell disease (SCD), affecting normal growth and development. The condition is rarely treated in SCD for fear of inducing priapism episodes.
Belinda F. Morrison +3 more
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Diagnosis and therapy of Kallmann syndrome in a boy (real case)
Timely and full sexual maturity of child is a challenge for both endocrinologists and general practitioners. Unfortunately, not all parents are aware when children generally reach puberty, so one shouldn’t hope that delayed puberty would be a common ...
O. A. Oganova
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ObjectiveTo explore the relationship between puberty timing and parental age at childbirth among primary and secondary students and in Beijing, and to provide a reference for further comprehending puberty development of children and adolescents ...
Zu-hong ZHANG, Tian-jiao CHEN, Jun MA
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