Testosterone, together with its bioactive metabolites dihydrotestosterone and estradiol,
determines the development and maintenance of male sexual differentiation and the …

Summary Monteilh C, Kieszak S, Flanders WD, Maisonet M, Rubin C, Holmes AK, Heron J,
Golding J, McGeehin MA, Marcus M. The Timing of maturation and predictors of Tanner …

Background There is growing scientific evidence supports a link between increased
childhood adiposity and early onset of puberty in girls worldwide in recent decades …

Background. The growth charts currently used in Norway, are based on measurements from
the 1970s and 80s. New data, collected in 2003–06, are available from the Bergen Growth …

The timing of puberty has considerable biological, psychosocial and long-term health
implications. Secular trends in age at pubertal development, the effects of obesity and the …

Background We evaluated the inter-rater agreement between self-assessed Tanner staging
and clinical examination and the intra-individual agreement of self-assessed information on …

Pubertal disorders in the context of chronic disease especially in those with chronic
inflammatory disorders or those requiring prolonged periods of treatment with glucocorticoid …

Turkish school children, to look for possible secular trends in pubertal development.
Methods: 1,562 girls and 1,749 boys (aged 6-16.5 years) from urban and rural schools were …

We describe current pubertal development in healthy urban Chinese boys. A cross‐
sectional study of the pubertal development of 18 807 urban Chinese boys aged from 3.50 …

Oxidative stress is the result of an imbalance in the redox state in a cell or a tissue. When the
production of free radicals, which are physiologically essential for signaling, exceeds the …