Does neighborhood environment influence girls' pubertal onset? findings from a cohort study

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Deardorff, Julianna ^a   Fyfe, Molly ^a   Ekwaru, J Paul ^a   Kushi, Lawrence H ^b   Greenspan, Louise C ^b   Yen, Irene H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMAN; NEIGHBORHOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PUBERTY; PUBIC HAIR; RECREATION; AGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBERTY; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; RECREATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857925688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-12-27     Document Type: Article

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