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PEDIATRICS Vol. 106 No. 3 September 2000, pp. 622-623

Current Age of Onset of Puberty

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To the Editor.

The appearance of breast and pubic hair development in girls has long been considered to be premature if before 8 and 9 years of age, respectively.1 Recently the Drug and Therapeutics and Executive Committees of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society reviewed the data on which to base recommendations for the diagnostic work-up and therapy of precocious puberty.2 They were concerned that current recommendations may be based on outdated standards for the definition of the normal age of puberty. They concluded that "recent data demonstrate that in the United States, the onset of puberty in girls is occurring earlier than previous studies have documented, with breast and pubic hair development appearing on average 1 year earlier in white girls and 2 years earlier in African-American girls." . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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