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In the USA, since 1993, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has supported the use of puberty blockers to treat precocious puberty. [48] Currently under FDA regulation the use of puberty blockers is considered on-label for the treatment of central precocious puberty. [49]] [50]
What is precocious puberty, and what are the first signs? Precocious means early or premature. When doctors talk about precocious puberty, they mean any signs of sexual maturity happening earlier ...
Precocious puberty on the rise In the mid-19th century, girls had their first periods — which typically come about two years after they begin to show signs of breasts or pubic hair — at age 16 ...
An important aspect of management of nonclassic CAH is suppression of central precocious puberty if it has begun. The usual clues to central puberty in boys are that the testes are pubertal in size, or that androgens of adrenal origin remain elevated even when the 17OHP has been reduced toward normal. In girls central puberty is less often a ...
The disorder Central Precocious Puberty (CPP) is also known as Progressive Precocious Gonadarche or GnRH-dependent precocious puberty, and it occurs when a child's body initiates puberty earlier than what is normally observed. Individuals with CPP will often experience an early growth spurt because their bones are maturing faster than usual.
Diet, obesity, genetics, socioeconomic status and potential exposure to certain chemicals are all possible causes of precocious puberty. Race has long been associated with precocious puberty, with ...
[9] [10] [11] Puberty that starts earlier than usual is known as precocious puberty, and puberty which starts later than usual is known as delayed puberty. Notable among the morphologic changes in size, shape, composition, and functioning of the pubertal body, is the development of secondary sex characteristics, the "filling in" of the child's ...
Central precocious puberty is most commonly caused through idiopathic (unknown) reasons in girls, but there is an increased risk of these organic causes for central precocious puberty in boys. [51] Peripheral precocious puberty is independent of gonadotropin and thus does not activate the HPG axis. [51] Peripheral precocious puberty in females ...