Marginal Food Security Predicts Earlier Age at Menarche Among Girls From the 2009-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys

Burris, Mecca; Wiley, Andrea S.

doi:10.1016/j.jpag.2021.03.010

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“…Several interesting recent applications have involved children or adolescents. Burris and Wiley ( 2021 ) found no association between food security and allostatic load in United States adolescents. However, Worthman and Panter‐Brick ( 2008 ) used an ALI among Nepali children to highlight the burden of rural poverty and, among late adolescents and young adults in the United States, Cullin ( 2021 ) found that allostatic load was associated with perceived fat stigma independent of adiposity.…”

Section: Allostatic Load Indices As Markers Of Chronic Stressmentioning

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Applying minimally invasive biomarkers of chronic stress across complex ecological contexts

DeCaro

Helfrecht

2022

American J Hum Biol

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Chronic stress is both theoretically and methodologically challenging to operationalize through biomarkers. Yet minimally invasive, field-friendly biomarkers of chronic stress are valuable in research linking biology and culture, seeking to understand differential patterns of human development across ecological contexts, and exploring the evolution of human sociality. For human biologists, a central question in measurement and interpretation of biomarkers is how stress-responsive physiological systems are regulated across diverse human ecologies. This article aims to describe a conditional toolkit for human biologists interested in the study of chronic stress, highlighting a mix of longstanding and novel biomarkers, with special focus on hair/fingernail cortisol, latent herpesvirus antibodies, allostatic load indices, and serial/ambulatory data collection approaches. Future trends in chronic stress biomarker research, including epigenetic approaches, are briefly considered. This overview considers: (1) challenges in separating a distinctly psychosocial dimension of chronic stress from adversity more broadly; (2) essential characteristics of human ecology that shape interpretation; (3) retrospective vs. longitudinal sampling; (4) the role of age, developmental effects, and local biologies; (5) different timescales of chronicity; and (6) the role of culture.

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Section: Allostatic Load Indices As Markers Of Chronic Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying minimally invasive biomarkers of chronic stress across complex ecological contexts

DeCaro

Helfrecht

2022

American J Hum Biol

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“…The reason for this phenomenon may be that with the improvement of economic and nutritional levels, women are more likely to be precocious. A significant decline in age at menarche has been found in women in China and other countries in recent decades 31–34 …”

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“…A significant decline in age at menarche has been found in women in China and other countries in recent decades. 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 …”

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Age at menarche and risk of hypertension in Chinese adult women: Results from a large representative nationwide population

Chen

Zhang

Chen

et al. 2021

J of Clinical Hypertension

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This study explored the association between age at menarche and the risk of hypertension in Chinese women. A total of 234 867 women aged ≥18 years from the China Hypertension Survey were included in this study. Participants were required to complete a standard questionnaire. Blood pressure and physical examination of the participants were performed by trained medical staff. Spearman correlation analysis was used to explore the correlation between age at menarche and other individual characteristics. Logistic regression was used to estimate the odds ratios for hypertension by age in years at menarche. The average age at menarche in Chinese women was 14.8 years. Women who were older at menarche were more likely to have a higher body mass index, larger waist circumference, smoke, and have a primary education (p < .05). After adjustments, odds ratios (95% confidence interval) for hypertension across age at menarche groups were 0.912 (0.877–0.948), 0.927 (0.893–0.963), 1.00 (reference), 1.061 (1.020–1.102), and 1.129 (1.090–1.169) for those aged ≤13, 14, 15 (reference), 16, and ≥17 years at menarche, respectively. Each 1‐year delay in menarche was associated with a 6.2% increase in the prevalence of hypertension (odds ratio, 1.062; 95% confidence interval, 1.053–1.071). The positive association between age at menarche and hypertension was evident among age at recruitment groups, BMI categories, and education levels. This association was stronger in urban women and postmenopausal women. Our findings suggest that late menarche is related to a higher risk of hypertension among Chinese adult women, and this association appeared similar among different subgroups.

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“…Similar associations have been detected longitudinally between food insecurity and later ages at menarche in Colombia with over 15,000 participants (Jansen et al, 2015a) and in Ethiopia (Belachew et al, 2011) with 900 participants. However, in the USA, food insecurity or inadequate nutrition has been associated with earlier puberty (M. Burris et al, 2020;M. E. Burris & Wiley, 2021).…”

Section: Evolutionary Human Sciencesmentioning

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Psychosocial and energetic factors on human female pubertal timing: a systematized review

2022

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Childhood psychosocial stressors have been proposed to favour fast life history strategies promoting earlier puberty in females. However, studies demonstrating this association often do not elucidate causal mechanisms, nor account for greater childhood energetic availability—also known to promote rapid growth and earlier puberty. To assess the extent to which such confounding has been considered, we conducted a systematized review to identify studies examining measures of both prepubertal growth (e.g., weight, height) and psychosocial stressors (e.g., adversity, father absence) in relation to female pubertal timing. A total of 1069 non-duplicated studies were identified across five databases. Twenty studies met selection criteria for critical review following independent screening of titles, abstracts, and manuscripts. Within these studies, measures indicative of rapid childhood growth were more consistently associated with earlier pubertal timing than were measures of psychosocial stress. We discuss future research directions to investigate the impact of psychosocial stress on pubertal timing more robustly, including methodological and mechanistic considerations, and contextualization of findings by socioecological environments.

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Marginal Food Security Predicts Earlier Age at Menarche Among Girls From the 2009-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys

Cited by 14 publications

References 48 publications

Applying minimally invasive biomarkers of chronic stress across complex ecological contexts

Applying minimally invasive biomarkers of chronic stress across complex ecological contexts

Age at menarche and risk of hypertension in Chinese adult women: Results from a large representative nationwide population

Psychosocial and energetic factors on human female pubertal timing: a systematized review

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