ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2011
Psychosocial risk and correlates of early menarche in Mexican-American girls.
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- A life history theory of father absence and menarche: a meta-analysis.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior · 2014Pooled it
- Nongenetic determinants of age at menarche: a systematic review.BioMed research international · 2014Pooled it
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- Association of reproductive factors and exogenous hormone use with distal sensory polyneuropathy among postmenopausal women in the United States: results from 1999 to 2004 NHANES.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Family environmental antecedents of pubertal timing in girls and boys: A review and open questions.Hormones and behavior · 2022Review
- Psychosocial and energetic factors on human female pubertal timing: a systematized review.Evolutionary human sciences · 2022Review
- Knowledge of peri-menarcheal changes and a comparative analysis of the age at menarche among young adolescent school girls in urban and rural Cameroon.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Early life household intactness and timing of pubertal onset in girls: a prospective cohort study.BMC pediatrics · 2020Article
- Association of Prepubertal and Adolescent Androgen Concentrations With Timing of Breast Development and Family History of Breast Cancer.JAMA network open · 2019Article
- Relationship between early menarche, obesity, and disordered eating behaviors: a school-based cross-sectional survey in Northern Saudi Arabia.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2018Article
- Cohort Profile: The Mexican American Mano a Mano Cohort.International journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
- Life history factors, personality and the social clustering of sexual experience in adolescents.Royal Society open science · 2016Article
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- Socioeconomic status and age at menarche: an examination of multiple indicators in an ethnically diverse cohort.Annals of epidemiology · 2014Article
- Contextual and developmental predictors of sexual initiation timing among Mexican-origin girls.Developmental psychology · 2014Article
- Life-course origins of the ages at menarche and menopause.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2013Review
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Abstract
Mexican-American girls have one of the fastest rates of decline in age at menarche. To date, no study has addressed the role of psychosocial factors on age at menarche in this population. Using data from a longitudinal cohort of Mexican-American girls from the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area recruited in 2005, the authors investigated associations between family life and socioeconomic environment and age at menarche in 523 girls. After adjusting for maternal age at menarche, daughter's age, and body mass index at baseline, perception of family life environment as conflict-prone was significantly associated with an earlier age at menarche (< 11 years). Additionally, there was a 2-fold higher risk (odds ratio = 2.22, 95% confidence interval: 1.12, 4.40) of early menarche among daughters of mothers who were single parents compared with those who were not. Furthermore, girls who matured early had a 2.5-fold increased risk (odds ratio = 2.69, 95% confidence interval: 1.04, 6.96) of experimenting with cigarettes compared with those who had an average-to-late age at menarche (≥ 11 years). This study provides important information regarding the role of family life environment and single parenting on age at menarche in Mexican Americans. Awareness of the impact of the family life environment and fathers' absence during the early years should be emphasized when addressing early age at menarche across cultures.
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