Recent data
on pubertal milestones in United States children: The secular trend toward earlier development
Impact of Long - Term Treatment with OROS Methylphenidate
on Pubertal Development in Adolescents with ADHD
Breast Cancer & The Environment Research Centers: Sixth Annual Early Environmental Exposures Meeting The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers (BCERC) network is conducting epidemiologic and biologic studies investigating the influence of early environmental exposures
on pubertal maturation and mammary gland development and the potential of these developmental changes to alter the risk of breast cancer in later life.
Hall says that the team is also stratifying the study group based
on pubertal status, hypothesizing that sex hormones may alter the dose - response, and by children who have severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), noting that neurohormonal influences affect immune function after severe TBI.
Not exact matches
Scouts tend to be civil and respectful kids and most under
pubertal age, so I'm not sure why you'd presume they'd be interested in fooling around
on a camping trip.
In its 2012 Policy Statement
on Baseball and Softball8, the AAP acknowledges the recent studies challenging the theory that the curveball and slider are stressful to the young elbow, but,
on the basis of other studies showing increased injury among those who throw curve balls and sliders at early ages, continues to recommend that introduction of the curve ball be delayed until after age 14, or when
pubertal development has advanced to the stage when the athlete has started to shave, and that sliders not be thrown until age 16.
Also, the determination of the
pubertal stage at AFD is not trivial; even our study had to rely
on estimations.
They were asked to complete a questionnaire including detailed information
on whether
pubertal changes occurred before, at the same time or later than among their peers.
This is the first study of its kind to investigate the influence of
pubertal timing
on male reproductive health.
At your age it's
pubertal gynecomastia and it should go away
on its own.
Sex differences in the effects of
pubertal development
on responses to a corticotropin - releasing hormone challenge: The Pittsburgh psychobiologic studies
The current study examined the joint contributions of
pubertal maturation, parental monitoring, involvement in older peer groups, peer dating, and peer delinquency
on dating in a sample of early adolescent boys and girls.
The physical changes of
pubertal growth typically initiate a redefinition of self among boys and girls, with an emphasis
on body image.
Results showed that the participants who had used ICT
on an average three hours the preceding day showed a significantly reduced cortisol increase one hour after awakening (awakening response) com - pared to those who had used ICT not at all or less than one hour after controlling for
pubertal status and the level of depression.
However, the lack of a moderating effect of
pubertal status
on age - and sex - adjusted BMI z scores and any metabolic parameter indicates that the same caution is required when treating younger children and adolescents.
On this basis, a significant proportion of the juvenile - depressed group was prepubertal and the juvenile / adult — depressed group was
pubertal or postpubertal at MDD onset.
Given the lack of existing data
on how
pubertal development might influence neural response to peer acceptance and rejection, puberty effects were examined using a whole - brain analysis rather than an ROI approach.
Thus, the current study capitalizes
on multiple informants as well as a 3 - wave longitudinal design to test associations between early
pubertal timing, peer reputation, and psychological distress among an ethnically diverse sample of girls transitioning through the emotionally «risky» period of early adolescence.
The Impact of Asynchronous
Pubertal Development
on Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood Among Females.
The influence of
pubertal timing and stressful life events
on depression and delinquency among Chinese adolescents.
In line with biopsychosocial models, results indicate that the effect of
pubertal timing
on depressive symptoms must be conceptualized through complex interactions between characteristics of adolescents» interpersonal relationships and prepubertal vulnerabilities.
Alternatively, it may be that
pubertal steroids have less of an influence
on reactivity to rejection in depressed youth because the salience of peer rejection is already maximized in this group.
The objective of this study was to test a comprehensive model of biologic (
pubertal status), family (communication and conflict), and psychological influences (behavioral autonomy)
on diabetes management and glycemic control in a sample of youth (N = 226) with type 1 diabetes recruited during late childhood / early adolescence (ages 9 — 11 years).
The current study builds
on this research by examining the psychosocial correlates of
pubertal timing longitudinally among a diverse, primarily ethnic minority sample of adolescent girls living in an urban environment.
A whole - brain regression using AFNI's 3dRegana was conducted to identify areas showing a main effect of
pubertal status
on response to rejection and / or acceptance controlling for the effects of chronological age.
The discussion focused
on the need for greater conceptual and empirical clarity regarding the
pubertal timing - depression association and its potential moderators.
The influence of early sexual debut and
pubertal timing
on psychological distress among Taiwanese adolescents.
Future research should therefore focus
on a more homogenous sample with regard to age and
pubertal development, or it should perform subsequent sampling in girls during their adolescence.
This study aims to identify the long - term impact of childhood adversity
on adolescents» depressive symptoms and whether this association is moderated by gender and early
pubertal timing in Taiwan.
The present study sought to address this gap in the literature by examining the effect of
pubertal synchrony, the degree to which morphological indicators of puberty develop concurrently,
on depressive symptoms in adolescence and emerging adulthood in a longitudinal sample.
Pubertal status was measured to control for its potential effects
on diabetes - related conflict and adherence to treatment.
Pubertal effects
on adjustment in girls: Moving from demonstrating effects to identifying pathways
Although there is no one established formula for determining a child's insulin requirement, insulin requirements are usually based
on body weight, age, and
pubertal status.
The results for
pubertal status and age are strikingly similar, indicating that after controlling for the effect of all the other variables in the regression model, the impact of life events
on depression is significantly greater in the
pubertal girls (sex ×
pubertal status [age] × life events interaction).
To further explore the influence of genetic and environmental risk factors
on adolescent depression, particularly among adolescent girls, data
on depression in prepubertal and
pubertal male and female same - sex twins from the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development were analyzed.
Age - independent effects of
pubertal status
on behavioral constraint in healthy adolescents.
Because the emergence of sex differences in depression occurs within the period of greatest
pubertal change, investigators have focused
on the role of reproductive hormones.