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4 days ago · Experiencing uncomfortable hormonal changes the first time around probably felt like enough, but women are quietly undergoing something akin to a second puberty. It is called perimenopause and ...
1 day ago · Puberty may start earlier than many adults expect. This is partly due to the fact that the age of pubertal onset has been decreasing over the past few decades. Children today may begin puberty, indicated by breast development and testicular enlargement, at ages as young as 8 for those assigned female at birth and 9 for those assigned male at birth.
5 days ago · Pubertal timing varies considerably and is associated with later health outcomes. We performed multi-ancestry genetic analyses on ~800,000 women, identifying 1,080 signals for age at menarche ...
4 days ago · puberty, in human physiology, the stage or period of life when a child transforms into an adult normally capable of procreation. A brief treatment of puberty follows. ( See also adolescence .)
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22 hours ago · McNamara told CBC News that providing access to reversible non-surgical treatments such as puberty blockers, will often limit a patient's need or desire for surgery later in life.
3 days ago · Early puberty puts kids at risk for short adult height, early sexual initiation, possible sexual abuse, and psychosocial issues. Alterations in reaching puberty do raise the possible risk of of developing reproductive system tumors slightly in later life. Certain precocious puberty risk factors, like sex and race, are unavoidable.
5 days ago · Physically, adolescence begins with the onset of puberty at 12 or 13 and culminates at age 19 or 20 in adulthood. Intellectually, adolescence is the period when the individual becomes able to systematically formulate hypotheses or propositions, test them, and make rational evaluations.
