Age of puberty in Iranian girls living in Tehran

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 628-633

  Razzaghy Azar, Maryam ^a,c   Moghimi, Ali ^a   Sadigh, Nader ^a   Montazer, Mehdi ^a   Golnari, Pedram ^a   Zahedi Shoolami, Leila ^a   Van Buuren, Stef ^b   Mohammad Sadeghi, Homa ^a   Zangeneh Kazemi, Azadeh ^a   Fereshtehnejad, Seyed Mohammad ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Genital development; Menarche; Pubarche; Puberty; Secondary sexual characteristics; Thelarche

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; PUBERTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; PUBERTY;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST; TEHRAN;

EID: 33847759555     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: 14645033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014460600909372     Document Type: Article

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