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Precocious Puberty and Benign Variants in Female Children: Etiology, Diagnostic Challenges, and Clinical Management

Endocrines
Precocious puberty, defined as the onset of secondary sexual characteristics before age 8 in girls, presents a diagnostic challenge in distinguishing between normal variants and pathological conditions requiring intervention.
Roberto Paparella, Arianna Bei, Lorenzo Brilli, Vittorio Maglione, Francesca Tarani, Marcello Niceta, Ida Pucarelli, Luigi Tarani   +7 more
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The Role of Pediatric Nutrition as a Modifiable Risk Factor for Precocious Puberty

Life, 2021
Puberty is a critical phase of growth and development characterized by a complex process regulated by the neuroendocrine system. Precocious puberty (PP) is defined as the appearance of physical and hormonal signs of pubertal development at an earlier age
Valeria Calcaterra, Elvira Verduci, Vittoria Carlotta Magenes, Martina Chiara Pascuzzi, Virginia Rossi, Arianna Sangiorgio, Alessandra Bosetti, Gianvincenzo Zuccotti, Chiara Mameli   +8 more
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Risk of selection bias due to non-participation in a cohort study on pubertal timing. [PDF]

, 2020
BackgroundNon-participation in aetiologic studies of pubertal timing is frequent. However, little effort has been given to explore the risk and potential impact of selection bias in studies of pubertal timing.ObjectiveWe aimed to explore the risk of ...
Arah, Onyebuchi A, Brix, Nis, Ernst, Andreas, Henriksen, Tine Brink, Lauridsen, Lea Lykke Braskhøj, Olsen, Jørn, Parner, Erik Thorlund, Ramlau-Hansen, Cecilia Høst   +7 more
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Risky,early, controversial. Puberty in medical discourses [PDF]

, 2015
This article comes within the compass of a research program (entitled CorAge. Bodily Experiences and AgePassages among 9e13 year-olds (ANR-09-ENFT-017) conducted between 2009 and 2013 about the emergence of a \u201cnew\u201d age in life ...
Cozzi, D, Vinel, V.
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The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pubertal Development in Girls: A Retrospective Evaluation of Girls Presenting with Precocious Puberty Before and During the Pandemic

Çocuk Dergisi
Objective: The timing of pubertal onset is a complex biological process influenced by various factors, many of which remain poorly understood. A notable increase in early puberty cases was observed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study evaluated girls
Esin Karakılıç Özturan, Aslı Berru Arslan Özden, Tuğçe Kandemir, Şükran Poyrazoğlu, Firdevs Baş, Fatma Feyza Darendeliler   +5 more
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Incidental pineal gland cyst in girls with early onset of puberty

Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2022
Background The causes of an early onset of puberty are still not clearly defined and may vary from subject to subject. In girls, even if 90% of early puberty is idiopathic, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain is performed to exclude secondary ...
Gianpaolo De Filippo, Rossella Gaudino, Valeria Calcaterra, Alberto Villani, Elena Bozzola, Mauro Bozzola   +5 more
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Pubertal presentation in seven patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to P450 Oxidoreductase deficiency [PDF]

, 2010
Context: P450 oxidoreductase (POR) is a crucial electron donor to all microsomal P450 cytochrome (CYP) enzymes including 17α-hydroxylase (CYP17A1), 21-hydroxylase (CYP21A2) and P450 aromatase.
Adachi, Antley, Arlt, Auchus, Belgorosky, Birgit Köhler, Bulun, Byskov, Cedric H. L. Shackleton, Dharia, Dhir, Dominique Maiter, Ewa M. Malunowicz, Falhammar, Felicity Collins, Flück, Fujieda, Fukami, Fukami, Fukami, Grondahl, Grøndahl, Hague, Huang, Huang, Idkowiak, Jan Idkowiak, Jin, Krone, Latronico, Luitgard Margarete Graul-Neumann, Mallin, Mann, Maria Szarras-Czapnik, Martin Silink, Mehul Dattani, Michiel N. Kerstens, Mullis, New, Nguyen, Nicole Reisch, Nils Krone, Otto, Ribes, Rosa, Roux, Rozman, Sahakitrungruang, Schmidt, Shackleton, Shima, Stephen O'Riordan, Suzuki, Tanae, ten Kate-Booij, Tomalik-Scharte, Wang, Wang, Wiebke Arlt, Wilson   +59 more
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The Impact of Puberty Timing on Future Metabolic and Hormonal Disorder Risk

Quality in Sport
Introduction and Objectives: Puberty is occurring earlier across populations, raising concerns about long-term health effects. Early onset—marked by younger age at menarche in girls or early voice change in boys—has been linked to adverse metabolic ...
Agnieszka Buliszak, Monika Babczyńska, Piotr Marcjasz, Anna Bioły , Patryk Dryja, Agata Boczar, Ewa Chodkowska, Kinga Bielas   +7 more
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Gut microbiota and its derived SCFAs regulate the HPGA to reverse obesity-induced precocious puberty in female rats

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022
The intestinal microbiota and its derived short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) can reverse obesity and obesity-related metabolic diseases, but whether it has an effect on obesity complicated by precocious puberty and its potential mechanism need to be further
Li Wang, Li Wang, Hao Xu, Hao Xu, Bin Tan, Qin Yi, Huiwen Liu, Hongrong Deng, Yunxia Chen, Rui Wang, Jie Tian, Jie Tian, Jing Zhu   +12 more
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Psychiatric characterization of children with genetic causes of hyperandrogenism [PDF]

, 2010
Objective: Very little is known about the mental health status in children with genetic causes of hyperandrogenism. This study sought to characterize psychiatric morbidity in this group. Design/methods: Children (8-18 years) with the diagnosis of classic
Ernst, Monique, Green-Golan, Liza, Leschek, Ellen, Merke, Deborah, Müller, Sven, Ng, Pamela, Sinaii, Ninet, VanRyzin, Carol   +7 more
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