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Starting puberty significantly early — younger than age 8 in girls, 9 in boys — may have health effects lasting into adulthood, including higher risks of breast cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Starting puberty significantly younger than age 8 for girls or age 9 for boys — a condition called precocious puberty — may have lasting repercussions on a child’s mental and physical ...
[9] [10] [11] Puberty that starts earlier than usual is known as precocious puberty, and puberty which starts later than usual is known as delayed puberty. Notable among the morphologic changes in size, shape, composition, and functioning of the pubertal body, is the development of secondary sex characteristics, the "filling in" of the child's ...
The most pronounced effects on height have been seen in children experiencing the onset of puberty before 6 years of age; however there is variability in height outcomes across studies which can be attributed to varying study designs, time of symptom presentation, and time of treatment termination. [44]
While precocious puberty is rare, more children nowadays are going through puberty at a younger age. “When you go back and look at the data from the U.S. and Europe, there's been a large ...
The study found that a severe increase/decrease in food supply in male ancestors shortly before puberty was linked to a change in death rates from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes rates in their descendants. In particular children of a father who suffered a deficit of food had lower rates of deaths from CVD, and a paternal grandfather ...
Puberty is considered delayed when the child has not begun puberty when two standard deviations or about 95% of children from similar backgrounds have. [7] [8] [9]In North American girls, puberty is considered delayed when breast development has not begun by age 13, when they have not started menstruating by age 15, [2] and when there is no increased growth rate. [8]
While the recent decision by the NHS cites a lack of research surrounding the long-term effects of puberty blockers, the treatment has been a medically accepted practice since the late 1980s ...