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If you’re a parent and are noticing what seems like the early signs of puberty in your child, you may be concerned about his or her health. Here’s what you need to know about precocious puberty.
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 ...
Research has showed that the average age of starting puberty continues to drop over time: One study published in 2020 shows that the average starting age of puberty for girls has decreased by ...
In medicine, precocious puberty is puberty occurring at an unusually early age. In most cases, the process is normal in every aspect except the unusually early age and simply represents a variation of normal development .
Puberty onset before the age of 9 in males is considered medically abnormal, and is defined as precocious puberty; Research on both organic and ideopathic precocious puberty in males has described puberty onset as early as nine months old, [11] [12] as semenarche has a wide range of onset within puberty (with some research indicating spermatogenesis in some cases in early pubertal development ...
Precocious puberty is a condition where children undergo puberty before seven or eight years. [5] Precocious puberty differs from premature thelarche in that the individual experiences additional aspects of puberty, including menarche , adrenarche , pubarche , vaginal discharge , and bone growth, while the sole presence of early thelarche ...
Starting puberty significantly early — younger than age 8 in girls, 9 in boys — may have health effects lasting into adulthood, including higher risks of breast cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Precocious puberty: The most common endocrinopathy is precocious puberty, which presents in girls (~85%) with recurrent estrogen-producing cysts leading to episodic breast development, growth acceleration, and vaginal bleeding. [7] [8] Precocious puberty may also occur in boys with McCune–Albright syndrome, but is much less common (~10–15% ...