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Tanner stages

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Tanner stages,
n.pr an assessment system for evaluating developmental progression through puberty.


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1986) have shown that Tanner stages are associated with an attenuated insulin-stimulated glucose metabolism.
In the North Carolina Infant Feeding Study (1978 through 1982), in utero exposure to either PCBs or 1,1'-(2,2-dichloroethenylidene)-bis[4-chlorobenzene] [p,p'-DDE, a metabolite of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (p,p'-DDT)] was not associated with the time to attainment of the Tanner stages in boys and girls (Gladen et al.
A commonly used marker of skeletal growth is linear growth velocity (height increase per year), and this correlates with the Tanner stages of sexual development [see Family Practice Notebook.
 
 
 
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