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Endocrinology
Effects of early menarche on physical and psychosocial health problems in adolescent girls and adult women
Jae-Ho Yoo
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2016;59(9):355-361.   Published online September 21, 2016

The menarcheal age of Korean women has been rapidly decreasing for the last 50 years, and the average menarcheal age of women born in the 1990s is approaching 12.6 years. In addition, interest in early puberty has been increasing recently owing to the rapid increase in precocious puberty. Generally, out of concern for short stature and early menarche, idiopathic central...

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