Relative weight and race influence average age at menarche: Results from two nationally representative surveys of US girls studied 25 years apart

Pediatrics

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 844-850

  Anderson, Sarah E ^a,c   Dallal, Gerard E ^a,b   Must, Aviva ^a,c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Body mass index; Menarche; National surveys; Obesity; Overweight; Puberty

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AVERAGING; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MENARCHE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENARCHE; NUTRITION SURVEYS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUBERTY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037384940     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.111.4.844     Document Type: Article

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