Trend towards Earlier Menarche in London, Oslo, Copenhagen, the Netherlands and Hungary (original) (raw)

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Brundtland and Walløe1 have reported that the trend toward earlier maturation in children, as evidenced by age at menarche, has stopped, at least for the present. Using probit estimates in a status quo inquiry they gave the mean ages as 13.27 yr in 1952 and 13.24 in 1970. Both results were based on large samples of Oslo schoolgirls.

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TANNER, J. Trend towards Earlier Menarche in London, Oslo, Copenhagen, the Netherlands and Hungary.Nature 243, 95–96 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243095a0

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• Received: 23 February 1973
• Issue Date: 11 May 1973
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/243095a0

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