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Early Puberty in Girls—What Do We Know in 2022?
Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent GynecologyVol. 35Issue 5p521–522Published in issue: October, 2022- Paula J. Adams Hillard
Cited in Scopus: 0I remember 1997. Early puberty was THE topic of discussion among pediatric and adolescent gynecologists, adolescent medicine physicians, and pediatric endocrinologists. That year, Marcia Herman-Giddens published the landmark study entitled “Secondary sexual characteristics and menses in young girls seen in office practice: a study from the Pediatric Research in Office Settings network.” The study included the findings that at age 8, 48.3% of African American girls and 14.7% of white girls had at least 1 sign of pubertal development, earlier than was suggested in standard pediatric textbooks.
