Research progress on the association between childhood obesity and pubertal timing

LYU Huiling; HAN Di; HU Jia; SHEN Hui

doi:10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2023.02.035

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LYU Huiling, HAN Di, HU Jia, SHEN Hui. Research progress on the association between childhood obesity and pubertal timing[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2023, 44(2): 311-315. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2023.02.035

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LYU Huiling, HAN Di, HU Jia, SHEN Hui. Research progress on the association between childhood obesity and pubertal timing[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2023, 44(2): 311-315. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2023.02.035

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Research progress on the association between childhood obesity and pubertal timing

doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2023.02.035

LYU Huiling¹,
HAN Di²,
HU Jia^{1, 2, 3},
SHEN Hui^{1, 2, 3
,
,}

1.
School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing(211166), China

Received Date: 2022-07-20
Rev Recd Date: 2022-08-18
Publish Date: 2023-02-25

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Abstract

With the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in children, the influence of overweight and obesity on pubertal timing has attracted the attention of scholars. This paper reviewed the correlation and mechanism between childhood obesity and pubertal timing, especially for earlier pubertal timing, and found that the regulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis function by nutrition and metabolic signals might under lie those associations. Obesity in girls was positively correlated with early pubertal timing, while the conclusions in boys were inconsistent. Overweight in boys was related to early pubertal timing, obesity in boys could lead to both earlier and later onset of puberty, which warrents further investigation.
- Obesity,
- Adolescent development,
- Child

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