Secular trends in age at menarche and time to establish regular menstrual cycling in Japanese women born between 1930 and 1985

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hosokawa, Michie ^a,b   Imazeki, Setsuko ^a,b   Mizunuma, Hideki ^c   Kubota, Toshiro ^d   Hayashi, Kunihiko ^b  

^a TAKASAKI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865835258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-12-19     Document Type: Article

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