Comparing adolescent self staging of pubertal development with hormone biomarkers.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Physical examinations to characterize pubertal maturation may be unacceptable for children enrolled in research studies. Studies confirm the utility of pubertal self staging for research, but there has been limited comparison of self examination with hormone biomarkers. Our objective was to assess concordance of pubertal self staging with hormone biomarkers of puberty.

Methods

Participants were enrolled in the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment Study, a longitudinal pregnancy and birth cohort study. At age 12 years, 139 females and 112 males completed pubertal self staging including breast and pubic hair development in females and pubic hair development in males. No clinical physical examination was performed. Hormone concentrations were measured in 1

SUBMITTER: Yayah Jones NH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9195346 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature