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

TY - JOUR

T1 - Association between age at menarche and early-life nutritional status in rural Bangladesh

AU - Bosch, A.M.

AU - Willekens, F.J.C.

AU - Baqui, A.H.

AU - van Ginneken, J.K.S.

AU - Hutter, I.

N1 - Reporting year: 2008

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - 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

AB - 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

U2 - 10.1017/S0021932007002490

DO - 10.1017/S0021932007002490

M3 - Article

SN - 0021-9320

VL - 40

SP - 223

EP - 237

JO - Journal of Biosocial Science

JF - Journal of Biosocial Science

IS - 2

ER -