Update on Age at Menarche in Italy: Toward the Leveling Off of the Secular Trend

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 238-244

  Rigon, Franco ^a   Bianchin, Luigi ^b   Bernasconi, Sergio ^c   Bona, Gianni ^d   Bozzola, Mauro ^e   Buzi, Fabio ^f   Cicognani, Alessandro ^g   De Sanctis, Carlo ^h   De Sanctis, Vincenzo ⁱ   Radetti, Giorgio ^j   Tatò, Luciano ^k   Tonini, Giorgio ^l   Perissinotto, Egle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b ULSS 16   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^h REGINA MARGHERITA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^j CENTRAL HOSPITAL OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^l INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

BMI; Menarcheal age; Mother's menarcheal age; Pediatrics; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; ITALY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; MOTHER; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MENARCHE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76349119911     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Anderson S.E., Dallal G.E., and Must A. Relative weight and race influence average age at menarche: Results from two nationally representative surveys of US girls studied 25 years apart. Pediatrics 111 (2003) 844-850
2. Damon A., Damon S.T., Reed R.B., et al. Age at menarche of mothers and daughters with a note on accuracy of recall. Hum Biol 41 (1969) 161-175
3. Liestol K., and Rosemberg M. Height, weight and menarcheal age of schoolgirls in Oslo: An update. Ann Hum Biol 22 (1995) 199-205
4. Sanchez-Andres A. Genetic and environmental factors affecting menarcheal age in Spanish women. Anthropol Anz 55 (1997) 69-78
5. Vercauteren M., and Susanne C. The secular trend of height and menarche in Belgium: Are there any signs of a future stop?. Eur J Pediatr 144 (1985) 306-309
6. Euling S.Y., Herman-Giddens M.E., Lee P.A., et al. Examination of US puberty-timing data from 1940 to 1994 for secular trends: Panel findings. Pediatrics 121 (2008) S172-S191
7. Henneberg M., and Louw G.J. Average menarcheal age of higher socio-economic status urban Cape coloured girls assessed by means of status quo and recall methods. Am J Phys Anthropol 96 (1995) 1-5
8. Kahl H., Schaffrath Rosario A., and Schlaud M. Sexual maturation of children and adolescents in Germany. Results of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS). Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz 50 (2007) 677-685
9. Lindgren G. Height, weight and menarche in Swedish urban school children in relation to socio-economic and regional factors. Ann Hum Biol 3 (1976) 501-528
10. Wang W., Zhao L.J., Liu Y.Z., et al. Genetic and environmental correlations between obesity phenotypes and age at menarche. Int J Obes 30 (2006) 1595-1600
11. Apraiz A.G. Influence of family size and birth order on menarcheal age of girls from Bilbao city (Biscay, Basque country). Am J Hum Biol 11 (1999) 779-783
12. Ersoy B., Balkan C., Gunay T., et al. The factors affecting the relation between the menarcheal age of mother and daughter. Child Care Health Dev 31 (2005) 303-308
13. Kelsey J.L., and Gammon M.D. Epidemiology of breast cancer. Epidemiol Rev 12 (1990) 228-240
14. Cooper G., Ephross S., Weinberg C., et al. Menstrual and reproductive risk factors for ischemic heart disease. Epidemiology 10 (1998) 255-259
15. Parent A.S., Teilmann G., Juul A., et al. The timing of normal puberty and the age limits of sexual precocity: Variations around the world, secular trends, and changes after migration. Endocr Rev 24 (2003) 668-693
16. Harris M.N., Prior J.C., and Koehoorn M. Age at menarche in the Canadian population: Secular trends and relationship to adulthood BMI. J Adolesc Health 43 (2008) 548-554
17. Hauspie R.C., Vercauteren M., and Susanne C. Secular changes in growth and maturation: An update. Acta Paediatr 423 Suppl (1997) 20-27
18. Keizer-Schrama SMPF de Muinck M.D. Trends in pubertal development in Europe. Hum Reprod 7 (2001) 287-291
19. Mul D., Fredriks M., Van Buuren S., et al. Pubertal development in the Netherlands 1965-1997. Pediatr Res 50 (2001) 479-486
20. Ulijaszek S.J., Evans E., and Miller D.S. Age at menarche of European, Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Pakistani schoolgirls living in London. Ann Hum Biol 18 (1991) 167-175
21. Padez C. Social background and age at menarche in Portuguese university students: A note on the secular changes in Portugal. Am J Hum Biol 15 (2003) 415-427
22. Papadimitriou A., Fytanidis G., Kouros K., et al. Age at menarche in contemporary Greek girls: Evidence for leveling-off of the secular trend. Acta Paediatrica 97 (2008) 812-815
23. Bau A.M., Ernert A., Echenk L., et al. Is there a further acceleration in the age at onset of menarche? A cross-sectional study in 1840 school children focusing on age and bodyweight at the onset of menarche. Eur J Endocrinol 160 (2009) 107-113
24. Davison K.K., Susman E.J., and Birch L.L. Percent body fat at age 5 predicts earlier pubertal development among girls at age 9. Pediatrics 111 (2003) 815-821
25. Frisch R., and Revelle R. Height and weight at menarche and hypothesis of menarche. Arch Dis Child 46 (1971) 695-701
26. Herman-Giddens M.E., Slora E.J., Wasserman R.C., et al. Secondary sexual characteristics and menses in young girls seen in office practice: A study from the Pediatric Research in Office Settings network. Pediatrics 99 (1997) 505-512
27. Kaplowitz P.B., and Oberfield S.E. Reexamination of the age limit for defining when puberty is precocious in girls in the United States: Implications for evaluation and treatment. Pediatrics 104 (1999) 936-941
28. Kirchengast S., and Bauer M. Menarcheal onset is associated with body composition parameters but not with socio-economic status. Coll Antropol 31 (2007) 419-425
29. Slyper A.H. The pubertal timing controversy in the USA, and a review of possible causative factors for the advance in timing of onset of puberty. Clin Endocrinol 65 (2006) 1-8
30. Hollingshead A. Two Factor Index of Social Position (1957), Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
31. Rigon F., and Bianchin L. Aspetti di fisiopatologia del ciclo mestruale nelle giovani donne (2000), La Garangola, Padova
32. Damon A., and Bajema C.J. Age at menarche: Accuracy of recall after thirty-nine years. Hum Biol 46 (1974) 381-383
33. Hediger M.L., and Stine R.A. Age at menarche based on recall information. Ann Hum Biol 14 (1987) 133-142
34. Koo M.M., and Rohan T.E. Accuracy of short-term recall of age at menarche. Ann Hum Biol 24 (1997) 61-64
35. Must A., Phillips S.M., Naumova E.N., et al. Recall of early menstrual history and menarcheal body size: After 30 years, how well do women remember?. Am J Epidemiol 155 (2002) 672-679
36. Euling S.Y., Sevelan S.G., Pescovitz O.H., et al. Role of environmental factors in the timing of puberty. Pediatrics 121 (2008) S167-S171
37. Danubio M.E., De Simone M., Vecchi F., et al. Age at menarche and age of onset of pubertal characteristics in 6-14-year-old girls from the province of L'Aquila (Abruzzo, Italy). Am J Hum Biol 16 (2004) 470-478
38. Dorn L.D. Another milepost on the road to understanding puberty. J Adolesc Health 43 (2008) 525-526