Increased Incidence of Precocious Puberty in Girls During COVID-19 Pandemic: Early Indicator of the Upcoming Childhood Metabolic Syndrome Pandemic?

To evaluate retrospectively the incidence of central precocious puberty (CPP) during the COVID 19 lockdown and comparing the data with the corresponding data from the previous 2 years. The study included 23 girls with CPP and 14 patients with early puberty. Nineteen patients were newly diagnosed wit...

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Autores principales: Itani, Alaa, Abou Hamdan, Aya, Zgheib, Hawraa, Ghandour, Zeina, Costanian, Christy, Azar, Ahlam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9749056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36531931
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X221134565
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author Itani, Alaa
Abou Hamdan, Aya
Zgheib, Hawraa
Ghandour, Zeina
Costanian, Christy
Azar, Ahlam
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Abou Hamdan, Aya
Zgheib, Hawraa
Ghandour, Zeina
Costanian, Christy
Azar, Ahlam
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description To evaluate retrospectively the incidence of central precocious puberty (CPP) during the COVID 19 lockdown and comparing the data with the corresponding data from the previous 2 years. The study included 23 girls with CPP and 14 patients with early puberty. Nineteen patients were newly diagnosed with CPP compared to 4 patients diagnosed with CPP during the previous 2 years. The number of new patients diagnosed with CPP was significantly higher than the mean during the previous 2 years (P < .001). There were more overweight patients with CPP during and after the lockdown (P < .05). These patients had also increased uterus length (P < .05) and more advanced bone age (P < .05). The increase in the incidence of central precocious puberty during and after the lockdown due to COVID 19 can be considered a serious consequence of the increased fat mass and an early indicator of the worsening of childhood obesity.
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spelling pubmed-97490562022-12-15 Increased Incidence of Precocious Puberty in Girls During COVID-19 Pandemic: Early Indicator of the Upcoming Childhood Metabolic Syndrome Pandemic? Itani, Alaa Abou Hamdan, Aya Zgheib, Hawraa Ghandour, Zeina Costanian, Christy Azar, Ahlam Glob Pediatr Health Childhood Obesity and Nutrition To evaluate retrospectively the incidence of central precocious puberty (CPP) during the COVID 19 lockdown and comparing the data with the corresponding data from the previous 2 years. The study included 23 girls with CPP and 14 patients with early puberty. Nineteen patients were newly diagnosed with CPP compared to 4 patients diagnosed with CPP during the previous 2 years. The number of new patients diagnosed with CPP was significantly higher than the mean during the previous 2 years (P < .001). There were more overweight patients with CPP during and after the lockdown (P < .05). These patients had also increased uterus length (P < .05) and more advanced bone age (P < .05). The increase in the incidence of central precocious puberty during and after the lockdown due to COVID 19 can be considered a serious consequence of the increased fat mass and an early indicator of the worsening of childhood obesity. SAGE Publications 2022-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9749056/ /pubmed/36531931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X221134565 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
spellingShingle Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
Itani, Alaa
Abou Hamdan, Aya
Zgheib, Hawraa
Ghandour, Zeina
Costanian, Christy
Azar, Ahlam
Increased Incidence of Precocious Puberty in Girls During COVID-19 Pandemic: Early Indicator of the Upcoming Childhood Metabolic Syndrome Pandemic?
title Increased Incidence of Precocious Puberty in Girls During COVID-19 Pandemic: Early Indicator of the Upcoming Childhood Metabolic Syndrome Pandemic?
title_full Increased Incidence of Precocious Puberty in Girls During COVID-19 Pandemic: Early Indicator of the Upcoming Childhood Metabolic Syndrome Pandemic?
title_fullStr Increased Incidence of Precocious Puberty in Girls During COVID-19 Pandemic: Early Indicator of the Upcoming Childhood Metabolic Syndrome Pandemic?
title_full_unstemmed Increased Incidence of Precocious Puberty in Girls During COVID-19 Pandemic: Early Indicator of the Upcoming Childhood Metabolic Syndrome Pandemic?
title_short Increased Incidence of Precocious Puberty in Girls During COVID-19 Pandemic: Early Indicator of the Upcoming Childhood Metabolic Syndrome Pandemic?
title_sort increased incidence of precocious puberty in girls during covid-19 pandemic: early indicator of the upcoming childhood metabolic syndrome pandemic?
topic Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9749056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36531931
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X221134565
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