Menarche in Newcastle upon Tyne girls

Billewicz, W. Z.; Fellowes, H M; Thomson, A. M.

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“…Our results are consistent and showed the same pattern that many authors found in several populations, such as France (Demoulin, 1998), England (Roberts et al, 1971;Billewicz et al, 1981;Dann and Roberts, 1993;Roberts, 1994), South Africa (Cameron and Nadgdee, 1996), Poland (Laska-Mierezejewska, 1995), and Spain (Sánchez-Andrés, 1997Apraiz, 1999) ( Tables 7, 8). The range that we found in our sample is similar to those found in the above populations.…”

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“…This was found in studies in Poland (Bielicki et al, 1986;Laska-Mierezejewska, 1995), in Hungary (Bodzsar, 1975), in Khartoum (Sudan) (Attallah et al, 1983), in Nigeria (Oduntan et al, 1976;Uche and Okorafor, 1979), in Egypt (Attallah, 1978), and South Africa (Henneberg and Louw, 1995). Family size and birth order also have shown a significant effect on age at menarche, with girls in large families exhibiting a delay of maturation (Roberts et al, 1971;Billewicz et al, 1981;Roberts, 1984, 1993;Clegg, 1980;Cameron and Nadgdee, 1996;Sánchez-Andrés, 1997;Apraiz, 1999). Other factors such as nutrition (Simodon et al, 1997), seasonality (Boldsen, 1992), physical activity (Malina, 1983), and altitude level (Gonzales et al, 1996) also have shown significant effects on age at menarche.…”

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Social background and age at menarche in Portuguese university students: A note on the secular changes in Portugal

Padez

2003

American J Hum Biol

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Menarcheal age of a sample of Portuguese university students (n = 3366), born between 1972 and 1983, age 18-23 years, was analyzed. The influence of parents' educational level and occupation, family size, birth order, and degree of urbanization of girl's locality of residence during childhood and adolescence were analyzed as well as secular trend in the Portuguese population. Mean age at menarche for girls born in 1983 was 12.32 years. Parents' educational level and occupation did not show any significant influence on mean age at menarche. Place of residence during childhood years and adolescence showed a significant effect on mean age at menarche, with girls from rural places with a later age at menarche than those who spent their childhood or adolescence in urban areas (P

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Social background and age at menarche in Portuguese university students: A note on the secular changes in Portugal

Padez

2003

American J Hum Biol

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“…Studies of girls in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland and South Shields found median ages at menarche of 13·3, 13·3 and 13·4 years respectively (Billewicz et al, 1981;Roberts et al, 1971Roberts et al, , 1975. These small differences in median menarcheal ages may be due to systematic error in recall in the Thousand Families data, random variation or cohort effects for different birth years.…”

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Predictors of Age at Menarche in the Newcastle Thousand Families Study

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Summary. Several studies have found relationships between early life factors (birth weight, length of gestation, height, weight, duration of breast-feeding, maternal age, social class, periods of infection, presence of adverse life events, and quality of housing conditions in childhood) and age at menarche but none has considered all of these factors in the same study. The follow-up study of the Newcastle Thousand Families birth cohort, established in 1947, provided age at menarche data collected retrospectively at age 50 from 276 women who returned self-completion questionnaires in 1997. Three main independent associations were observed: girls who experienced a shorter gestation, girls whose mothers were younger when they were born, and girls who were heavier at age 9 had earlier menarche. Birth weight, standardized for gestational age, was found to have different relationships with age at menarche depending upon how heavy or light a girl was at age 9. The results of this study support the hypotheses that conditions in fetal and early life are associated with the timing of menarche and that greater childhood growth is associated with earlier menarche. It is suggested that future work should focus on illuminating the mechanisms underlying these statistical relationships.

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“…Previous papers from the present study in Newcastle upon Tyne dealt with menarche, early patterns of menstruation, sexual maturation in boys and girls Thomson 1980, 1981 a, b) and with the prevalence ofacne in relation to pubertal status (Fellowes, Billewicz and Thomson 1981). In this communication, a summary of the anthropometric findings is provided and some biological and social correlates of adolescent growth are considered.…”

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A longitudinal study of growth in Newcastle upon Tyne adolescents

Billewicz

Thomson

Fellowes

1983

Annals of Human Biology

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White Newcastle upon Tyne schoolchildren born in 1962 were examined at approximately half-yearly intervals from 9 to 17 years of age. During the last year of compulsory education losses to follow-up became selective with respect to socio-economic background, and the results reported here are restricted to 564 boys and 669 girls seen regularly between the ages of 10 and 15 years at least. Newcastle adolescents were slightly shorter and lighter than the London children on whom Tanner's British Standards were based. The longitudinal pattern of skinfold changes in boys was different from that observed in girls. Differences in height attained between occupational groups were well established by the age of five years, and the same was true of differences between family-size groups for children with fathers in manual occupations. It is inferred that differences in height between occupational and family-size groups resulted more from differences in leg than in trunk length. At age 15, the correlations of height attained with maternal height were 0.42 and 0.43, and with birthweight 0.25 and 0.28, for boys and girls respectively. Adjustment, by regression, of heights attained for birthweight, age at peak height velocity and maternal height diminished differences between occupational and family-size groups. After such adjustment, heights significantly lower than average were found only among subjects with fathers in unskilled manual occupations and with large families. Among subjects with fathers in manual occupations, subscapular and triceps skinfolds and arm circumference decreased significantly with increasing family size.

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Menarche in Newcastle upon Tyne girls

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Social background and age at menarche in Portuguese university students: A note on the secular changes in Portugal

Social background and age at menarche in Portuguese university students: A note on the secular changes in Portugal

Predictors of Age at Menarche in the Newcastle Thousand Families Study

A longitudinal study of growth in Newcastle upon Tyne adolescents

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