Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index, smoking in pregnancy, and alcohol intake in pregnancy in relation to pubertal timing in the children

• Main Authors: Nis Brix (Author), Andreas Ernst (Author), Lea Lykke Braskhøj Lauridsen (Author), Erik Thorlund Parner (Author), Onyebuchi A. Arah (Author), Jørn Olsen (Author), Tine Brink Henriksen (Author), Cecilia Høst Ramlau-Hansen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Earlier pubertal timing has been observed in many countries. We aimed to explore if prenatal exposure to maternal obesity, smoking, and alcohol intake was associated with timing of puberty by use of a novel marker of pubertal timing: 'the height difference in standard deviat...