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ArticleArchives of disease in childhood2017

Early puberty in 11-year-old girls: Millennium Cohort Study findings.

Yvonne Kelly, Afshin Zilanawala, Amanda Sacker, Robert Hiatt, Russell Viner

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Article in Archives of disease in childhood, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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41 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 115 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Adverse Childhood Experiences and Early Pubertal Timing Among Girls: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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  7. Association between Obesity and Puberty Timing: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017
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  17. Discrete-time Survival Analysis of Risk Factors for Early Menarche in Korean Schoolgirls.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yvonne KellyDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2936-3994
Afshin ZilanawalaDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.
Amanda SackerDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.
Robert HiattDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Russell VinerInstitute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK.
University College London · GBUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveEarly puberty in girls is linked to some adverse outcomes in adolescence and mid-life. We address two research questions: (1) Are socioeconomic circumstances and ethnicity associated with early onset puberty? (2) Are adiposity and/or psychosocial stress associated with observed associations?

designLongitudinal data on 5839 girls from the UK Millennium Cohort Study were used to estimate associations between ethnicity, family income, adiposity and psychosocial stress with a marker of puberty.

main outcome measureReported menstruation at age 11 years.

resultsAll quoted ORs are statistically significant. Girls in the poorest income quintile were twice as likely (OR=2.1), and the second poorest quintile nearly twice as likely (OR=1.9) to have begun menstruation compared with girls in the richest income quintile. Estimates were roughly halved on adjustment for Body Mass Index and markers of psychosocial stress (poorest, OR=1.5; second poorest, OR=1.5). Indian girls were over 3 times as likely compared with whites to have started menstruation (OR=3.5) and statistical adjustments did not attenuate estimates. The raised odds of menstruation for Pakistani (OR=1.9), Bangladeshi (OR=3.3) and black African (OR=3.0) girls were attenuated to varying extents, from about a third to a half, on adjustment for income and adiposity.

conclusionsIn contemporary UK, excess adiposity and psychosocial stress were associated with social inequalities in early puberty, while material disadvantage and adiposity were linked to ethnic inequalities in early puberty among girls.

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AdiposityAsia, WesternChildFemaleHumansIncomeLongitudinal StudiesMenarcheMenstruationProspective StudiesPuberty, PrecociousSocioeconomic FactorsStress, PsychologicalUnited KingdomWest Indiesethnicityinequalitiesmenarchesocioeconomic

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