Secular trends in age at menarche among Chinese girls from 24 ethnic minorities, 1985 to 2010

Global Health Action

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Song, Yi ^a,b   Ma, Jun ^a   Agardh, Anette ^b   Lau, Patrick W C ^c   Hu, Peijin ^a   Zhang, Bing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Ethnic minorities; Girls; Menarche; Puberty development; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GIRL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; KOREAN (PEOPLE); MINORITY GROUP; MONGOLIAN (CITIZEN); STUDENT; UYGUR (PEOPLE); ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MENARCHE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENARCHE; MINORITY GROUPS;

EID: 84948798318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v8.26929     Document Type: Article

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