Age of onset of puberty in apparently healthy school girls from northern India

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 383-387

  Khadgawat, Rajesh ^a   Marwaha, R K ^a   Mehan, Neena ^a   Surana, Vineet ^a   Dabas, Aashima ^a   Sreenivas, V ^b   Gaine, M Ashraf ^a   Gupta, Nandita ^a  

^a Hospital and Research Centre   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Menarche; Obesity; Pubarche; Thelarche

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; INDIA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; OVERWEIGHT; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MENARCHE; OVERWEIGHT; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; STUDENTS;

EID: 84969785235     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 09747559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13312-016-0857-5     Document Type: Article

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