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Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2020 Background and objective Early pubertal timing is associated with sleep among Western adolescents, but little is known about this association in Chinese adolescents, especially with regard to the association between bedtimes and early pubertal timing ...
Hua Diao +3 more
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Psychosocial and energetic factors on human female pubertal timing: a systematized review
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022 Childhood psychosocial stressors have been proposed to favour fast life history strategies promoting earlier puberty in females. However, studies demonstrating this association often do not elucidate causal mechanisms, nor account for greater childhood ...
Delaney J. Glass +2 more
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Early pubertal timing is a risk factor for adolescent dysmenorrhea [PDF]
npj Women's HealthFemales who experience menarche early have elevated risk for dysmenorrhea; yet, other puberty features precede menarche. Using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study®, pubertal timing was estimated via random effects linear growth ...
Christel M. Portengen +8 more
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Cross-trait multivariate GWAS confirms health implications of pubertal timing [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsPubertal timing is highly variable and is associated with long-term health outcomes. Phenotypes associated with pubertal timing include age at menarche, age at voice break, age at first facial hair and growth spurt, and pubertal timing seems to have a ...
Siquan Zhou +3 more
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Autism Research, 2020 Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired social communication and poor adaptation to change; thus, the onset of puberty may be a pivotal transition. This cross‐sectional study measured pubertal timing to examine hypothesized differences for sex (female vs. male) and group (ASD vs. typical development [TD]).
Blythe A. Corbett +3 more
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Associations between structural stigma and earlier pubertal timing persist for 1 year among Black girls and Latinx youth [PDF]
Scientific ReportsBlack and Latinx youth experience earlier pubertal timing relative to their non-stigmatized peers. Research on determinants of this increased risk has largely focused on aspects of individuals (e.g., body mass index) or their proximal environment (e.g ...
Rachel M. Martino +4 more
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Association between pubertal timing and bone and body composition in young adult men [PDF]
Scientific ReportsBone and muscle development are important processes in pubertal maturation. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between pubertal timing and bone density and body composition in young adult men. In this observational study, bone and body
Leen Antonio +7 more
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Pubertal timing: A life course pathway linking early life risk to adulthood cardiometabolic health. [PDF]
PLoS ONEObjectiveTo evaluate a series of prospective life course models testing whether the timing of pubertal development is a pathway through which prepubertal risk factors may influence adulthood cardiometabolic health.MethodsSubjects were 655 female ...
Maria E Bleil +5 more
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Pubertal Timing, Smoking, and Sexual Activity [PDF]
Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2017 Fu-Sung Lo
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Developmental brain changes during puberty and associations with mental health problems
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2023 Background: Our understanding of the mechanisms relating pubertal timing to mental health problems via brain development remains rudimentary. Method: Longitudinal data was sourced from ∼11,500 children from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development ...
Niousha Dehestani +3 more
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