Median ages at stages of sexual maturity and excess weight in school children

Reproductive Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Luciano, Alexandre P ^a   Benedet, Jucemar ^b   De Abreu, Luiz Carlos ^a   Valenti, Vitor E ^c   De Souza Almeida, Fernando ^a   De Vasconcelos, Francisco A G ^b   Adami, Fernando ^a,b  

^a FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DO ABC   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Early puberty; Obesity; Scholar children

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BREAST; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREVALENCE; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF EVALUATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURITY; WEIGHT GAIN; AGE; BODY MASS; FOLLOW UP; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAZIL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PUBERTY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84885564959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-10-56     Document Type: Article

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