Despite substantial heritability in pubertal development, children differ in maturational tempo. Hypotheses: (i) puberty and its duration are influenced by early changes in height and adiposity. (ii) ...

A new study suggests that growing up in poverty accelerates biological development. For adolescent girls, this early onset of ...

Pubertal development has been associated with adverse outcomes throughout adolescence and adulthood. However, much of the previous literature has categorized outcome variables and pubertal timing ...

A possible epigenetic link between the environment and pubertal timing has been discovered by researchers. To a large extent, pubertal timing is heritable, but the underlying genetic causes are still ...

Few topics provoke as much concern as the perception that puberty is beginning earlier than ever. While synthetic ...

Subsequent pubertal progression does not seem to be affected by transient thelarche in girls, study data show. Using newly developed and validated puberty nomograms, transient thelarche appears to be ...

Girls who enter puberty early have a higher risk of developing overweight later in life – even if they were not overweight as children. This is shown by a new study from Aarhus University, which has ...

Tanner stages track five milestone physical changes during puberty for both boys and girls. Early puberty in females starts before age 8, and before age 9 in males. Delayed puberty is when girls don't ...

Faces are as unique as fingerprints and can reveal a great deal of information about our health, personalities, age, and feelings. Researchers recently discovered adolescents begin to view faces ...

Early puberty is becoming more common. Research shows it can change how girls are perceived, treated, and supported as they move through childhood.

Obese boys tended to lag behind boys of normal weight in their pubertal development, according to a large, community-based, racially diverse study. Based on data gathered from 2005-2010, each boy was ...