Pubertal growth of 1,453 healthy children according to age at pubertal growth spurt onset. The Barcelona longitudinal growth study

• Main Authors: Antonio Carrascosa (Author), Diego Yeste (Author), Antonio Moreno-Galdó (Author), Miquel Gussinyé (Author), Ángel Ferrández (Author), María Clemente (Author), Mónica Fernández-Cancio (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Pubertal growth pattern differs according to age at pubertal growth spurt onset which occurs over a five years period (girls: 8-13 years, boys: 10-15 years). The need for more than one pubertal reference pattern has been proposed. We aimed to obtain five 1-year-age-interval pubertal pa...