Changes in menarcheal age in girls exposed to war conditions

Prebeg, Z; Bralić, Irena

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“…In a compelling longitudinal study, girls in the city of Šibenik, a Croatian town exposed to severe war conditions from 1991-1996, exhibited a significant reversal of a previously observed secular trend towards earlier menarche during and just after the war. Increase in mean menarcheal age was observed in all socioeconomic groups, and was more pronounced in girls A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T 14 whose homes were damaged during the war, with the most significant delays in menarche exhibited by girls who had lost a family member during the war (Prebeg & Bralić, 2000). In this context it appears that nutritional stress and psychosocial stress occurred in tandem, delaying menarche, and illustrating that even large increases in the risk of mortality do not accelerate maturation when nutritional conditions are marginal.…”

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Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability in Cebu, Philippines

Kyweluk

Georgiev

Borja

et al. 2018

Evolution and Human Behavior

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Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability in Cebu, Philippines

Kyweluk

Georgiev

Borja

et al. 2018

Evolution and Human Behavior

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“…For the rest, a series of urban environmental factors may be causing the delay in puberty attainment, and need to be considered. Strenuous child labour has associated with delayed adolescent development due to higher levels of energy expenditure (Thomas et al 2001) and menarcheal delay has been demonstrated due to the psychological upheaval of war (Prebeg and Bralić 2000) as well as exposure to violence and fear in urban environments (Villamor et al 2009). Malnutrition, acute infection and exposure to urban environmental pollutants may also have contributed to this pattern in these urban adolescents.…”

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The influence of chronic conditions and the environment on pubertal development. An example from medieval England

Lewis

Shapland

Watts

2016

International Journal of Paleopathology

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Adolescence is a unique period in human development encompassing sexual maturation (puberty) and the physical and psychological transition into adulthood. It is a crucial time for healthy development and any adverse environmental conditions, poor nutrition, or chronic infection can alter the timing of these physical changes; delaying menarche in girls or the age of peak height velocity in boys. This study explores the impact of chronic illness on the tempo of puberty in 607 adolescent skeletons from medieval England (AD 900-1550). A total of 135 (22.2%) adolescents showed some delay in their pubertal development, and this lag increased with age. Of those with a chronic condition, 40.0% (n=24/60) showed delay compared to only 20.3% (n=111/547) of the non-pathology group. This difference was statistically significant. A binary logistic regression model demonstrated a significant association between increasing delay in pubertal stage attainment with age in the pathology group. This is the first time that chronic conditions have been directly associated with a delay in maturation in the osteological record, using a new method to assess stages of puberty in skeletal remains.

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“…Consequently, with the improvement of general health and nutritional conditions over the past centuries, the age of menarche decreased in most of the western countries (Eveleth & Tanner, ; Padez & Rocha, ; Parent, ; Tanner, ). Oppositely, members of living populations that experience high levels of stress show a delayed age of menarche (such as in war conditions: (Prebeg & Bralic, ); or with corticoids prescription: (DiVall & Radovick, )).…”

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Detecting menarcheal status through dental mineralization stages?

Jeanson

Santos

Brůžek

et al. 2016

American J Phys Anthropol

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Menarche is an indicator frequently used to study variation in growth, development, and related health conditions among members of living populations. As a life event, menarche is often associated with changes in an individual's social identity. The reproductive lifespan, which for females starts with menarche, is a paramount feature of palaeodemographic studies. Determination of menarche status from the skeletal remains of individuals of past populations can be obtained by assessing the developmental status of the iliac crest, as well as the hand and wrist bones, which are, unlike teeth, often poorly recovered in bioarchaeological contexts. The present study seeks to evaluate the link between dental mineralization and menarche in a population of known menarche status. The relationship between permanent teeth mineralization and menarche status was investigated by using data of developing permanent teeth (167 radiographs) rated in accordance with the well-known standards of Demirjian et al. and Moorrees et al. collected among 73 living French females of known menarcheal status. Using correlation ratios, GLMM and CART algorithm, menarcheal status is correlated with mineralization of the premolars. Menarcheal status is predicted correctly for 92 and 77% of radiographs of the learning and validation samples, respectively. Although promising, the results require caution prior to generalization to other populations. The age of menarche in this particular sample may simply coincide with the development of the premolars in this particular sample. Therefore, further investigation applied to populations with various mean ages of menarche is required in order to provide new evidence of variation in human growth and development from the correspondence between the mineralization of the permanent teeth and menarche.

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Changes in menarcheal age in girls exposed to war conditions

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Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability in Cebu, Philippines

Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability in Cebu, Philippines

The influence of chronic conditions and the environment on pubertal development. An example from medieval England

Detecting menarcheal status through dental mineralization stages?

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