PUBERTY IN A SAMPLE OF BRAZILIAN SCHOOLBOYS: ONSET AND ANTHROPOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS

Autor: Taciana Carla Maia Feibelmann, Adriana Paula da Silva, Juliana Pereira Pontes Santos, Esthefania Garcia de Almeida, Heloisa Marcelina da Cunha Palhares, Maria de Fátima Borges
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Revista Paulista de Pediatria, Vol 39 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1984-0462
DOI: 10.1590/1984-0462/2021/39/2019109
Popis: ABSTRACT Objective: To determine the age of puberty onset in boys and collect anthropometric data of participants at different puberty stages. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study that assessed 430 boys in a random sample representing 48,390 students from public and private schools from the city of Uberaba, Southeast Brazil. The inclusion criteria were males, aged between 5 and 18 years, and absence of previous diseases. Participants and their guardians filled a semistructured questionnaire with questions relevant to their and their parents’ puberty. We set the significance at p
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