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- Title
Accuracy of Self-assessed Tanner Staging Against Hormonal Assessment of Sexual Maturation in Overweight African-American Children.
- Authors
Raman, Aarthi; Lustig, Robert H.; Fitch, Mark; Fleming, Sharon E.
- Abstract
The article discusses a study of the accuracy of self-reported Tanner (SRT) staging against hormonal sexual maturation assessment in overweight African-American (AA) children, 9-11 years old. It is stated that 15-20% agreement was found in SRT stages of assessments in boys' genital and pubic hair and girls' breast and pubic hair relative to their hormone-derived pubertal stages. SRT staging in such children was reportedly not accurate when compared with a hormone-derived method.
- Subjects
PUBERTY; AFRICAN American children; OVERWEIGHT children; ESTRADIOL; LUTEINIZING hormone
- Publication
Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2009, Vol 22, Issue 7, p609
- ISSN
0334-018X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/JPEM.2009.22.7.609