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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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.
[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 ...
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 ...
Kallmann syndrome (KS) is a genetic disorder that prevents a person from starting or fully completing puberty.Kallmann syndrome is a form of a group of conditions termed hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. [1]