The present study analyzes age at menarche, menstrual characteristics, body traits and nutritional status on the basis of a cross-sectional data on120 semi-rural adolescent girls aged 13 to 18 year from Yamunanagar, Haryana. On the basis of retrospective method, mean age at menarche was 13.4 years with a standard deviation of 0.99 years. The menstrual flow period continued on an average for 4.4...

Received: November 21st, 2011 Accepted for Publication: November 28th, 2011 _________________________ ABSTRACT _____________________________________________________________ Background: Several studies suggest that menarche tends to appear earlier in life as sanitary, nutritional and economic conditions of a society improve. Aim / Objective: To determine the age at menarche amongst secondary sch...

Predicting the onset of menstruation (menarche age) and measuring height, weight and Body Mass Index (BMI) are among the major health information. Due to the importance of this issue, the present study was conducted to determine the anthropometric indexes and their relationship with menarche age in female students of Sabzevar, Iran in 2010. This cross sectional descriptive study was conducted o...

Latar Belakang : Menarche adalah perdarahan pertama dari uterus yang terjadi pada seseorang wanita. Kurang pengetahuan menyebabkan cemas, kaget, mudah tersinggung, khawatir akan sesuatu buruk saat menarche. Upaya dilakukan untuk mengurangi kecemasan yaitu pendampingan orang tua. Tujuan Mengetahui hubungan tua dengan tingkat remaja putri dalam menghadapi Metode Desain penelitian ini Cross sectio...

Age at menarche is regarded as a sensitive indicator of physical, biological, and psychosocial environment. The aim of this study was to determine the age at menarche and its association with biological and socioeconomic factors in girls from Santa Rosa (La Pampa, Argentina). An observational cross-sectional study was carried out on 1,221 schoolgirls aged 9-15 years. Menarche data were obtained...

The present study was initiated to derive an indirect method for estimating body fat mass (BFM) and to evaluate the correlation between indirect anthropometric techniques for this estimation and to examine the relation of these parameters and of IQ to age of menarche. A total of 578 adolescent girls of ten junior high schools in five educational districts of Mashhad, participated in a cros...

In the present study we conducted a regression analysis of age at menarche against Maximum Peak Velocity (MPV) of height in non-athlete Korean girls which was derived with the wavelet interpolation method, and composed linear to quartic regression polynomials to obtain the best regression polynomial. We then applied the age at menarche and age at MPV of height of athletes to the best polynomial...

BACKGROUND Menarche is the first menstrual period of a girl at puberty. The timing of menarche is important for health in later life. Age at menarche is a complex trait and has a strong genetic component. This review summarizes the results of the genetic studies of age at menarche conducted to date, highlights existing problems in this area and outlines prospects of future studies on genetic fa...

In a cross-sectional retrospective study of 2087 Ghanaian school girls in various educational institutions in the Kumasi district, Ashanti region, Ghana, the mean menarcheal age was found to be 13.98 +/- 1.42 years. Differences in the menarcheal age of the girls was found to be significantly correlated to social class, parents ethnic origin, educational institution and home living area (P = 0.0...