National survey of referrals for precocious puberty in Germany

An unusual high number of girls were referred to our paediatric endocrine clinic with suspected precocious puberty (PP) since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analysed our data and initiated a survey among German paediatric endocrinologists. At our centre, less than 10 patients were diagno...

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Autores principales: Baehr, Sonja, Schnabel, Dirk, Woelfle, Joachim, Schreiner, Felix, Gohlke, Bettina
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Original Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10201240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37208033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2023-001987
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author Baehr, Sonja
Schnabel, Dirk
Woelfle, Joachim
Schreiner, Felix
Gohlke, Bettina
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description An unusual high number of girls were referred to our paediatric endocrine clinic with suspected precocious puberty (PP) since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analysed our data and initiated a survey among German paediatric endocrinologists. At our centre, less than 10 patients were diagnosed of PP annually between 2015 and 2019. This increased to n=23 (2020) and n=30 (2021). A German survey confirmed this observation: Out of 44 centres which completed the questionnaire, 30/44 (68%) reported an increase of PP. Above this, 32/44 (72%) stated an increase in girls diagnosed with ‘early normal puberty’ since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-102012402023-05-23 National survey of referrals for precocious puberty in Germany Baehr, Sonja Schnabel, Dirk Woelfle, Joachim Schreiner, Felix Gohlke, Bettina BMJ Paediatr Open Original Research Letter An unusual high number of girls were referred to our paediatric endocrine clinic with suspected precocious puberty (PP) since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analysed our data and initiated a survey among German paediatric endocrinologists. At our centre, less than 10 patients were diagnosed of PP annually between 2015 and 2019. This increased to n=23 (2020) and n=30 (2021). A German survey confirmed this observation: Out of 44 centres which completed the questionnaire, 30/44 (68%) reported an increase of PP. Above this, 32/44 (72%) stated an increase in girls diagnosed with ‘early normal puberty’ since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10201240/ /pubmed/37208033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2023-001987 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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National survey of referrals for precocious puberty in Germany
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10201240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37208033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2023-001987
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