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Health considerations for transgender women and remaining unknowns : a narrative review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Transgender (trans) women (TW) were assigned male at birth but have a female gender identity or gender expression. The literature on management and health outcomes of TW has grown recently with more publication of research.
Defreyne, Justine   +6 more
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Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Age at menarche is a marker of timing of puberty in females. It varies widely between individuals, is a heritable trait and is associated with risks for obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and all-cause mortality.
A Kong   +271 more
core   +7 more sources

Food insecurity and linear growth of adolescents in Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background: Although many studies showed that adolescent food insecurity is a pervasive phenomenon in Southwest Ethiopia, its effect on the linear growth of adolescents has not been documented so far.
Gebremariam, Abebe   +5 more
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Investigating the association between obesity and asthma in 6- to 8-year-old Saudi children:a matched case-control study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: Previous studies have demonstrated an association between obesity and asthma, but there remains considerable uncertainty about whether this reflects an underlying causal relationship.
A Bener   +52 more
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Longitudinal patterns of white matter fibre density and morphology in children are associated with age and pubertal stage

open access: yesDevelopmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2020
The pubertal period involves dynamic white matter development. This period also corresponds with rapid gains in higher cognitive functions including attention, as well as increased risk of developing mental health difficulties.
Sila Genc   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Age at pubertal onset and educational outcomes [PDF]

open access: yes
Education has important short and long run implications for individual outcomes. In this paper we explore the association between age at pubertal onset and educational outcomes in a sample of Swedish girls.
Dreber, Anna   +2 more
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Evolution of the human fear-circuitry and acute sociogenic pseudoneurological symptoms: The Neolithic balanced-polymorphism hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In light of the increasing threat of large-scale massacres such as terrorism against non-combatants (civilians), more attention is warranted not only to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but also to acute sociogenic pseudoneurological ("conversion ...
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Effects of feeding programme on the performance and energy balance of nulliparous rabbit does

open access: yesAnimal, 2012
A total of 190 rabbit females were used to evaluate five feeding programmes from 9 weeks of age to the first parturition: CAL, fed ad libitum with a control diet (C: 11.0 MJ digestible energy (DE) and 114 g digestible protein (DP)/kg dry matter (DM ...
E. Martínez-Paredes   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The influence of dairy consumption, sedentary behaviour and physical activity on bone mass in Flemish children : a cross-sectional study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: This cross-sectional study aimed to look for an association in young children between whole body bone mineral content (BMC) and areal bone mineral density (aBMD) and dairy consumption as well as sedentary behaviour (SB) and physical activity (
D'Haese, Sara   +9 more
core   +2 more sources

[Acceleration of pubertal development].

open access: yesLa Pediatria medica e chirurgica : Medical and surgical pediatrics, 1996
Sexual precocity is defined as the appearance of physical signs of puberty at a time -3 SD before the mean age for the population, that is before 8 years for girls and 8.5-9.0 years for boys. The Authors discuss about etiology, therapeutic approach, indications for treatment, results and still open problems in this condition.
ANTONIAZZI, Franco   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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