Effect of bodyweight on the onset of puberty of female children and adolescents

Acta Academiae Medicinae Sinicae

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-28

  Zhu, Hui Juan ^a   Pan, Hui ^a   Zhang, Dian Xi ^a   Wu, Qin Yong ^a   Zhang, Kui ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Gong, Feng Ying ^a   Wu, Xue Yan ^a   Deng, Jie Ying ^a   Shi, Yi Fan ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Age of monarche; Bodyweight; Insulin like growth factor 1; Leptin; Puberty onset

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PUBERTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950473152     PISSN: 1000503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3881/j.issn.1000-503X.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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