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Among researchers who study puberty, the Tanner scale is commonly considered the "gold standard" for assessing pubertal status when it is conducted by a trained medical examiner. [5] In HIV treatment, the Tanner scale is used to determine which regimen to follow for pediatric or adolescent patients on antiretroviral therapy (adult, adolescent ...
Central precocious puberty can be treated by suppressing the pituitary hormones that induce sex steroid production. The opposite condition is delayed puberty. [2] [3] The term is used with several slightly different meanings that are usually apparent from the context.
A common definition for the onset of puberty is physical changes to a person's body. [13] These physical changes are the first visible signs of neural, hormonal, and gonadal function changes. The age at which puberty begins varies between individuals; usually, puberty begins between 10 and 13 years of age.
When doctors talk about precocious puberty, they mean any signs of sexual maturity happening earlier than age 8 in a girl and age 9 in a boy. “In a girl, the first signs of true puberty would be ...
There has been a trend for years of children reaching puberty at earlier ages, and the reason why has largely mystified doctors. Now, new research is suggesting a possible culprit—and it shows ...
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 ...
It commonly ends with the beginning of puberty. [2] Preadolescence is commonly defined as ages 9–12 [3] ending with the major onset of puberty. It may also be defined as simply the 2-year period before the major onset of puberty. [4] Preadolescence can bring its own challenges and anxieties.
Breen’s suit claims Olson-Kennedy’s clinic put her on puberty blockers when she was just 12, started her on hormone therapy at 13 and performed a double mastectomy on her at 14.