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Though children across races are beginning puberty at younger ages, research has shown that Black girls are more than twice as likely as white girls to start puberty early. Today, puberty begins ...
More recently, a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health earlier this year found Black girls were more than twice as likely to start puberty early than white girls. Hispanic girls were ...
Factors other than obesity, however, perhaps genetic and/or environmental ones, are needed to explain the higher prevalence of early puberty in black versus white girls." [18] While more girls are increasingly entering puberty at younger ages, new research indicates that some boys are actually starting later (delayed puberty).
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 ...
A systematic review has concluded that early age at menarche ... nutrition can accelerate puberty in girls as would be ... black girls was significantly earlier than ...
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 ...
Lifestyle changes may also play a role. A new study shows a spike in early puberty in girls during the onset of the pandemic, which disrupted healthy habits for many. The researchers found that ...
A new study finds that females born in the early 2000s started menstruating around 6 months earlier than those born during the 1950s and 60s. This trend is more pronounced in non-Hispanic Black ...