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Workup for delayed puberty. The first step in evaluating children with delayed puberty involves differentiating between the different causes of delayed puberty. Constitutional delay can be evaluated with a thorough history, physical, and bone age. [4] Malnutrition and chronic diseases can be diagnosed through history and disease-specific ...
Constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) is a term describing a temporary delay in the skeletal growth and thus height of a child with no physical abnormalities causing the delay. [1] Short stature may be the result of a growth pattern inherited from a parent (familial) or occur for no apparent reason (idiopathic).
[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 ...
Researchers haven’t identified a single cause as to why puberty is shifting earlier. There are some theories—including obesity, shifting diets, and exposure to phthalates (a substance added to ...
What causes precocious puberty? Scientists have still not pinned down a single reason for precocious puberty, and many factors can trigger it. The Endocrine Society says that genetics are the most ...
Experts say that lessons on puberty in school aren't comprehensive enough and often happen too late — after development has already started for many. Why puberty education in the U.S. starts too ...
If the cause can be traced to the hypothalamus or pituitary, the cause is considered central. Other names for this type are complete or true precocious puberty. [6] Causes of central precocious puberty can include: hypothalamic hamartoma produces pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) Langerhans cell histiocytosis; McCune–Albright ...
The number of childfree women is at a record high: 48 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 44 don’t have kids, according to 2014 Census numbers. The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree.