NIH R01 · 2025
Improving health among disadvantaged girls to slow pubertal onset and reduce long-term health risks
Girls who experience puberty earlier than their same-age peers are at disproportionate risk for poor outcomes across domains of emotional, social, and physical health, setting the stage for life-long hardships. Just some of these outcomes include depression, self-harm, low self-esteem, poor body image, disordered eating, poor school performance, affiliation with delinquent peers, drug and alcohol use, earlier sexual debut, teenage motherhood, progressive weight gain and obesity, worsening cardiometabolic risk factor profiles, incident disease (e.g., type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer), and early mortality. At the same time, abundant research shows greater prepubertal body mass…
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