Original articlePubertal correlates in black and white girls
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Participants
The participants were from the three clinical sites of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study (NGHS). Briefly, the NGHS was a longitudinal study that recruited a socio-economically diverse group of girls, ages 9 and 10 years at entry, from public and parochial schools in metropolitan Cincinnati, OH; the Richmond, California Unified School District; and a random sample of participants from a health maintenance organization in Washington, DC.9 The Maryland Medical
Results
Analyses included all participants who were 9 years old at recruitment, which included 541 black (49% prepubertal) and 615 white (77% prepubertal) girls. Overall cohort retention was 89% at year 10 of the study. Because of incomplete growth data from missed visits, only 817 subjects remained in the Preece-Baines height growth curve model 1 analyses.
The ages for selected puberty parameters are given in Table I. Black participants had a significantly younger age for onset of puberty, age at PHV,
Discussion
This study sought to examine the associations between several indicators of pubertal development in a group of women born from 1977 to 1978, as well as the temporal drift in the correlation between onset of puberty and age of menarche. The cross-sectional PROS study from the United States noted earlier ages of pubertal maturation than previously reported.22 Girls in The Netherlands appeared to have a younger age at onset of puberty between 1965 and 1980, but the onset of puberty appears to have
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Supported by contracts HC55023-26 and cooperative agreements U01-HL-48941-44 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Participating NBLI Growth and Health Study (NGHS) Centers included Children’s Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH (Stephen R. Daniels, MD, principal investigator; John A. Morrison, PhD, co-investigator); Westat, Inc., Rockville, Maryland (George B. Schreiber, ScD, principal investigator; Ruth Striegel-Moore, PhD, co-investigator); and the University of California at Berkeley (Zak I. Sabry, PhD, principal investigator; Patricia B. Crawford, DrPH, RD, co-investigator). The Maryland Medical Research Institute in Baltimore (Bruce A. Barton, PhD, principal investigator) served as the data-coordinating center. The program office was the NHLBI (Eva Obarzanek, PhD, RD, project officer 1992 to present; Gerald H. Payne, MD, project officer 1985 to 1991).
The authors have no financial conflicts of interest relevant to this article.