Predictive factors for early menarche in Taiwan

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 446-450

  Chie, Wei Chu ^a   Liu, Yung Hsin ^a   Chi, Jenny ^a   Wu, Virginia ^a   Chen, Angela ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Early menarche

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CARCINOMA; EXERCISE; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENARCHE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TAIWAN;

AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MENARCHE; ODDS RATIO; TAIWAN;

EID: 0030786926     PISSN: 09296646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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