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Anthropometry and Menarcheal Status of Adolescent Nigerian Urban Senior Secondary School Girls

BACKGROUND: Age at menarche is a significant indicator of growth and sexual maturation in girls. During adolescence, anthropometry provides a tool for monitoring and evaluating the hormone-mediated changes in growth and reproductive maturation. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to examine the anthropometric stat...

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Autores principales: Onyiriuka, Alphonsus Ndidi, Egbagbe, Eruke Elizabeth
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kowsar 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23825976
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijem.8052
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Egbagbe, Eruke Elizabeth
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description BACKGROUND: Age at menarche is a significant indicator of growth and sexual maturation in girls. During adolescence, anthropometry provides a tool for monitoring and evaluating the hormone-mediated changes in growth and reproductive maturation. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to examine the anthropometric status of pre- and post-menarcheal Nigerian adolescent girls attending senior secondary schools. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this school-based cross-sectional survey, a pre-tested structured self-administered questionnaire was set for obtaining the socio-demographic data (age at menarche, number of siblings, occupation and educational attainment of their parents, etc.), while the anthropometric status data was obtained by direct measurement of weight and height. The body mass index (BMI) and the ponderal index (PI) of each participant were computed from their respective weight and height values. The study was designed to include all the students in the two schools that were randomly selected. The anthropometric indices of pre- and post-menarcheal girls were compared. RESULTS: Out of a total population of 2,166 students, 2,159 (99.7%) participated but 9 questionnaires were incompletely filled and were rejected, leaving 2,150 (510 were pre-menarcheal and 1,640 were post- menarcheal) for further analysis. The mean menarcheal age was 13.44 ± 1.32 years (95% Confidence Interval (CI) = 13.38-13.5). Girls from families with high socio-economic status (SES) attained menarche 8.0 and 9.0 months earlier than their counterparts from families with middle and low SES respectively. Girls from small-size families had a significantly lower menarcheal age than their counterparts from large-size families. A comparison of the anthropometric indices of pre- and post-menarcheal girls showed: weight, 41.1 ± 6.3 kg (95% CI = 40.6-41.6) vs 47.6 ± 7.2 kg (95% CI = 47.3-47.9), P < 0.001; height, 146.2± 5.5 cm (95% CI = 145.7-146.7) vs 153.6 ± 9.9 cm (95% CI = 153.1-154.1), P < 0.001; BMI, 16.4 ± 1.9 (95% CI = 16.2-16.6) vs 18.8 ± 1.6 (95% CI = 18.7-18.9), P < 0.001; and PI, 45.1 ± 1.7 (95% CI = 45.0-45.2) vs 44.6 ± 1.4 (95% CI = 44.5-44.7), P < 0.01. CONCLUSIONS: Post-menarcheal girls were significantly taller and heavier with a higher BMI than their pre-menarcheal counterparts, but the pre-menarcheal girls possessed a better linear body as reflected by the PI.
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spelling pubmed-36936602013-07-03 Anthropometry and Menarcheal Status of Adolescent Nigerian Urban Senior Secondary School Girls Onyiriuka, Alphonsus Ndidi Egbagbe, Eruke Elizabeth Int J Endocrinol Metab Research Article BACKGROUND: Age at menarche is a significant indicator of growth and sexual maturation in girls. During adolescence, anthropometry provides a tool for monitoring and evaluating the hormone-mediated changes in growth and reproductive maturation. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to examine the anthropometric status of pre- and post-menarcheal Nigerian adolescent girls attending senior secondary schools. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this school-based cross-sectional survey, a pre-tested structured self-administered questionnaire was set for obtaining the socio-demographic data (age at menarche, number of siblings, occupation and educational attainment of their parents, etc.), while the anthropometric status data was obtained by direct measurement of weight and height. The body mass index (BMI) and the ponderal index (PI) of each participant were computed from their respective weight and height values. The study was designed to include all the students in the two schools that were randomly selected. The anthropometric indices of pre- and post-menarcheal girls were compared. RESULTS: Out of a total population of 2,166 students, 2,159 (99.7%) participated but 9 questionnaires were incompletely filled and were rejected, leaving 2,150 (510 were pre-menarcheal and 1,640 were post- menarcheal) for further analysis. The mean menarcheal age was 13.44 ± 1.32 years (95% Confidence Interval (CI) = 13.38-13.5). Girls from families with high socio-economic status (SES) attained menarche 8.0 and 9.0 months earlier than their counterparts from families with middle and low SES respectively. Girls from small-size families had a significantly lower menarcheal age than their counterparts from large-size families. A comparison of the anthropometric indices of pre- and post-menarcheal girls showed: weight, 41.1 ± 6.3 kg (95% CI = 40.6-41.6) vs 47.6 ± 7.2 kg (95% CI = 47.3-47.9), P < 0.001; height, 146.2± 5.5 cm (95% CI = 145.7-146.7) vs 153.6 ± 9.9 cm (95% CI = 153.1-154.1), P < 0.001; BMI, 16.4 ± 1.9 (95% CI = 16.2-16.6) vs 18.8 ± 1.6 (95% CI = 18.7-18.9), P < 0.001; and PI, 45.1 ± 1.7 (95% CI = 45.0-45.2) vs 44.6 ± 1.4 (95% CI = 44.5-44.7), P < 0.01. CONCLUSIONS: Post-menarcheal girls were significantly taller and heavier with a higher BMI than their pre-menarcheal counterparts, but the pre-menarcheal girls possessed a better linear body as reflected by the PI. Kowsar 2013-04-01 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3693660/ /pubmed/23825976 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijem.8052 Text en Copyright © 2013, Research Institute For Endocrine Sciences and Iran Endocrine Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Onyiriuka, Alphonsus Ndidi
Egbagbe, Eruke Elizabeth
Anthropometry and Menarcheal Status of Adolescent Nigerian Urban Senior Secondary School Girls
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title_full Anthropometry and Menarcheal Status of Adolescent Nigerian Urban Senior Secondary School Girls
title_fullStr Anthropometry and Menarcheal Status of Adolescent Nigerian Urban Senior Secondary School Girls
title_full_unstemmed Anthropometry and Menarcheal Status of Adolescent Nigerian Urban Senior Secondary School Girls
title_short Anthropometry and Menarcheal Status of Adolescent Nigerian Urban Senior Secondary School Girls
title_sort anthropometry and menarcheal status of adolescent nigerian urban senior secondary school girls
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23825976
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijem.8052
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