The relationship between adolescent obesity and pelvis dimensions in adulthood: a retrospective longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The effect of fat tissue on a developing individual is fundamentally different from the effect on an adult. Several changes caused by obesity during sexual maturation have an irreversible and severe negative effect (lower fertility, reduced final height, type 2 diabetes mellitus) even for those who have subsequently lost weight. Our study was focused on monitoring the skeletal structure substantially influenced by sex hormones-the pelvis. The adult pelvis is strongly sexually dimorphic, which is not the case for the juvenile pelvis; skeletal differences between sexes are not so prominent and start to manifest with the onset of puberty. Evidence from animal models and case studies of treatment of gender dysphoria suggests that estrogens have a stimulatory effect on the gr

SUBMITTER: Novak JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7224231 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature