ArticleEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2016
Early menarche in normal-weight girls and its association with excess weight, abdominal obesity and metabolic changes at the end of sexual maturation.
Article in European journal of clinical nutrition, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Early menarche and current nutritional status of the adolescents from a birth cohort.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2025Article
- The association between early menarche and higher-risk cardiometabolic profile: a dose-response analysis of the Tabari cohort at enrollment phase.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Age at Menarche, Growth Velocity, and Adiposity Indices in Italian Girls Aged 10 to 14.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesThe objective of this study was to assess whether early menarche in normal-weight girls is associated with excess weight, abdominal obesity and metabolic changes at the end of sexual maturation. SUBJECTS/
methodsThis is a cohort study of 255 normal-weight girls aged 10-18 years attending public schools in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast of Brazil. The following data were collected in 2007 and 2012: anthropometric; lifestyle, socioeconomic and demographic data; lipid profile; and self-assessed sexual maturation.
resultsEighty-four girls (32.9%) had early menarche. The socioeconomic level and time spent using a computer increased during this 5-year period, whereas the time spent watching television decreased. The prevalences of excess weight and abdominal obesity were 19.2% and 9.8%, respectively. The anthropometric and laboratory variables of girls with and without early menarche did not differ.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that early menarche did not influence weight, abdominal obesity and serum lipids in the final stage of sexual maturation.
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