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

doi:10.1017/s0021932007002490

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

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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	English
Pages (from-to)	223-237
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Biosocial Science
Volume	40
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932007002490
Publication status	Published - Mar-2008

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