Association between age at menarche and early-life nutritional status in rural Bangladesh

Alinda M. Bosch; Frans J. Willekens; Abdullah H. Baqui; Jeroen K. S. Van Ginneken; Inge Hutter

Association between age at menarche and early-life nutritional status in rural Bangladesh

Alinda M. Bosch, Frans J. Willekens, Abdullah H. Baqui, Jeroen K. S. Van Ginneken, Inge Hutter

International Institute of Social Studies

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Abstract

Age at menarche is associated with anthropometry in adolescence. Recently, there has been growing support for the hypothesis that timing of menarche may be set early in life but modified by changes in body size and composition in childhood. To evaluate this, a cohort of 255 girls aged

Original language	Undefined/Unknown
Pages (from-to)	223-237
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Biosocial Science
Volume	40
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 2008

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