• Delayed puberty is when a person lacks or has incomplete development of specific sexual characteristics past the usual age of onset of puberty. The person...
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  • precocious puberty can be treated by suppressing the pituitary hormones that induce sex steroid production. The opposite condition is delayed puberty. The term...
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  • pollution. Puberty that starts earlier than usual is known as precocious puberty, and puberty which starts later than usual is known as delayed puberty. Notable...
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    puberty if they lack enlargement of the testicles by age 14. Delayed puberty affects about 2% of adolescents. Most commonly, puberty may be delayed for...
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  • estradiol). Puberty blockers are used to delay puberty in children with precocious puberty. Since at least the 1980s, they are also used to delay the development...
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  • cause of short stature and delayed puberty. Constitutional Delay of Growth and Adolescence (CDGA) Constitutional Growth Delay (CGD) Idiopathic short stature...
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  • of puberty is not due to a pathologic cause. It is considered a variant of the timeline of puberty. Although more common in boys, girls with delayed puberty...
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  • appearance of pubic hair at puberty. It is one of the earliest physical changes of puberty and can occur independently of complete puberty. It is usually the second...
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    stages and thus are not diagnostic for age estimation. Delayed puberty Gonadarche Precocious puberty Pubarche Vellus hair Tanner's stages at Whonamedit?...
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    the intended result of androgen replacement therapy in males with delayed puberty and low testosterone. In the prenatal period, virilization refers to...
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  • constitutional delay of puberty or a case of KS/CHH. The diagnosis is often one of exclusion found during the workup of delayed puberty. In males, the...
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  • testicular growth. WPATH classifies puberty-suppressing hormone therapy as a "fully reversible" intervention. Delaying puberty allows individuals more time to...
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  • individuals progress onto adolescence, they may experience absent or delayed puberty or puberty that starts but fails to progress. Adult males with HH may exhibit...
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    genitourinary tract, enuresis, underdeveloped genitalia (due to delayed growth or delayed puberty, often an endocrinological problem), and vesicoureteral reflux...
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    infant, this can lead to developmental issues such as slowed growth, delayed puberty, bone abnormalities, and intellectual impairment. More generally, impaired...
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    continues throughout adulthood. Excessive weight gain Sleep disorders Delayed puberty Short stature Obesity Extreme flexibility Narrow forehead at the temples...
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    testosterone levels in women, early puberty in children, as a part of transgender hormone therapy, and to delay puberty in transgender youth among other...
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    Review's recommendations could best apply there. In England a delayed clinical trial into puberty blockers is planned for early 2025. The Gender Identity Development...
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  • Gonadarche (category Puberty)
    (/ˌɡoʊnəˈdɑːrki/) refers to the earliest gonadal (reproductive gland) changes of puberty. In response to pituitary gonadotropins, the ovaries in females and the...
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  • enlargement due to glycogen deposition, along with growth failure and delayed puberty. It occurs in some children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes irrespective...
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    which is used in the treatment of low testosterone levels in men, delayed puberty in boys, breast cancer in women, and anemia. It is taken by mouth....
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  • demands of her training including maintaining weight, dealing with delayed puberty, and making free time for hobbies and love interests. "Jews in the...
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  • Menarche (category Puberty)
    medical perspectives, it is often considered the central event of female puberty, as it signals the possibility of fertility. Girls experience menarche...
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    Medical conditions: acromegaly (especially when GH is also high) delayed puberty pregnancy hyperthyroidism some rare tumors, such as carcinoids, secreting...
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    which is used in the treatment of low testosterone levels in men, delayed puberty in boys, at low doses as a component of menopausal hormone therapy...
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  • shallow vagina, early and rapid growth of pubic hair in childhood, delayed puberty, hirsutism, virilisation, irregular menstrual cycle in adolescence...
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  • Hypogonadism is often discovered during the evaluation of delayed puberty, but ordinary delay, which eventually results in normal pubertal development...
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    Evaluation of delayed puberty usually reveals elevation of gonadotropins, indicating that the pituitary is providing the signal for puberty but the gonads...
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    undiagnosed preadolescents and adolescents, growth delay may be mistaken for a side effect of delayed puberty and improperly treated. Short stature in Turner...
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    occurs in childhood. Precocious puberty or failure of puberty to occur (sexual infantilism: absent or delayed puberty) Excessive facial hair, virilization...
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