Racial disparities in pubertal development

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 333-339

  Ramnitz, Mary Scott ^a   Lodish, Maya B ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

menarche; puberty; race; Tanner stage

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CAUCASIAN; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GROWTH; HAIR GROWTH; HEREDITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MENARCHE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); ONSET AGE; PUBERTY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURITY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADOLESCENT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MENARCHE; OBESITY; PUBERTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881506814     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1348891     Document Type: Article

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