Clinical follow-up data and the rate of development of precocious and rapidly progressive puberty in patients with premature thelarche
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Dilek Çiçek
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Semra Cetinkaya
Abstract
Background:
We aimed to evaluate the clinical follow-up data of patients with premature thelarche and determine the rate of development of precocious and early puberty in these patients.
Methods:
The charts of 158 girls with premature thelarche who were followed-up in our pediatric endocrinology polyclinic were reviewed. The patients were divided into three groups according to the age at onset: group 1 (0–1 month) (n=12), group 2 (1–24 months) (n=40) and group 3 (2–8 years) (n=106).
Results:
At admission, the mean height standard deviation score (SDS), body weight (BW)-SDS, body mass index (BMI) and BMI-SDS were significantly higher in group 3 than in group 1 and group 2. At admission, 8.8% of the patients were obese and 24% of the patients were overweight. The majority of patients who were obese and overweight were in group 3. At the end of the follow-up, thelarche regressed in 24.7%, persisted in 32.9%, progressed in 25.9% and had a cyclic pattern in 16.5% of the patients. Precocious or rapidly progressive puberty developed in 47 of the 158 patients (29.7%). The mean age at progression to early or rapidly progressive puberty was 98.1±17.6 months. A total of 89.3% of the patients who progressed to early or rapidly progressive puberty were in group 3.
Conclusions:
Precocious or rapidly progressive puberty developed in 29.7% of subjects with premature thelarche. As patients who developed rapidly progressive puberty had a higher BW-SDS and BMI-SDS than those who did not, it is suggested that the increase in weight could stimulate rapidly progressive puberty in cases with premature thelarche.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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- Frontmatter
- Review
- Vitamin D deficiency in childhood: old lessons and current challenges
- Original Articles
- Brain gray matter volume differences in obese youth with type 2 diabetes: a pilot study
- Prevalence and clinical presentation at the onset of type 1 diabetes mellitus among children and adolescents in AL-Baha region, Saudi Arabia
- Whole blood viscosity and cerebral blood flow velocities in obese hypertensive or obese normotensive adolescents
- The utility of body mass index as an indicator for lipid abnormalities in non-fasting children
- Association of insulin-like growth factor-1 and IGF binding protein-3 with 25-hydroxy vitamin D in pre-pubertal and adolescent Indian girls
- The safety of Lipistart, a medium-chain triglyceride based formula, in the dietary treatment of long-chain fatty acid disorders: a phase I study
- Clinical follow-up data and the rate of development of precocious and rapidly progressive puberty in patients with premature thelarche
- Age of pubertal events among school girls in Lagos, Nigeria
- Evaluation of basal sex hormone levels for activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis
- PHKG2 mutation spectrum in glycogen storage disease type IXc: a case report and review of the literature
- Twenty-seven mutations with three novel pathologenic variants causing biotinidase deficiency: a report of 203 patients from the southeastern part of Turkey
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