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Research on secular trends in auxology
Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 1990Current status of research on secular trends in growth and maturation is considered from several perspectives. The need to define secular trends as positive, negative or absent is initially discussed. Positive secular trends, i.e., increases in size and earlier maturation, characterize the majority of the auxological literature.
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Secular Trend in Reported Sperm Counts
Andrologia, 2009Claims that there has been a recent secular decline in splerm counts have been disputed. Protaglonists on both sides of the discussion have based their arguments on data from a few large samples at different times and (mostly) in different places. It is not disputed that the differences between the mean counts in the various samples are statistically ...
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Minerva pediatrica, 2003
The aim of our study was to evaluate the age of the onset of pubertal characteristics in a population of Northern Italy and to compare our data with the pubertal staging scale defined by Tanner in 1976. These observations may help us to verify if even in Italy there is a positive secular change in sexual maturation, as has been observed in many ...
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The aim of our study was to evaluate the age of the onset of pubertal characteristics in a population of Northern Italy and to compare our data with the pubertal staging scale defined by Tanner in 1976. These observations may help us to verify if even in Italy there is a positive secular change in sexual maturation, as has been observed in many ...
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Pubertal development in girls: secular trends
Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2006To provide an overview of recent studies from the US and other parts of the world that provide conflicting data as to whether there has been a secular trend for earlier onset of puberty and menarche from about 1960 to the present.Studies from the US suggest a decrease in the age of onset of puberty over the past 40 years of between 0.5 and 1.0 years ...
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The secular trend: History and prospects
Human Physiology, 2009The origin of the term secular trend and the history of study of this phenomenon are analyzed. Throughout most of the 20th century, the direction of changes was the same in most countries: improvement of socioeconomic conditions was accompanied by an increase in the physical parameters of the human body, primarily, the indices of longitudinal growth ...
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Secular trends in newborn sex ratios
Early Human Development, 2014A wide variety of factors have been shown to influence the male to female ratio at birth, which invariably displays a male excess. This paper will review and amplify recent work by the author, with specific references to individual countries, regions and entire continents in order to provide a global overview of this subject.
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International mortality trends and secular changes
Preventive Medicine, 1983The decline in mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD) in several countries, notably the United States, in the 1970s has drawn attention to the need for monitoring secular trends in mortality and morbidity from this disease internationally and to discover the reasons for any upward or downward changes.
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Secular trends in some Russian populations
Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 2011Secular changes of body measurements in children have been the subject of studies in many different countries. In recent years, there has been an increase in BMI associated with a significant trend towards obesity in both Europe and the US. The aim of the present study was to analyze trends in body measurements and BMI in Russia from the 1960's to the ...
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022Jun J Mao,, Msce +2 more
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Secular Trend of Timing of Puberty
2005During the last decades, a secular trend of growth and timing of puberty occurred consisting of increased adult height and earlier onset of puberty. In The Netherlands although the most recent survey showed an increase of final height again, the timing of puberty onset appears to level off, and in boys pubertal onset was even slightly retarded ...
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