Secular Trends in Pubertal Development

Variations in pattern of pubertal changes in girls.

1969 • 5,491 citations

Variations in the Pattern of Pubertal Changes in Boys

1970 • 4,870 citations

The fetal and infant origins of disease

1995 • 525 citations

Secular trends in growth

2000 • 501 citations

BMI in Childhood and Its Association with Height Gain, Timing of Puberty, and Final Height

2001 • 432 citations

Serum Leptin in Children With Obesity: Relationship to Gender and Development

1996 • 394 citations

Size at Birth Predicts Age at Menarche

2001 • 352 citations

Turner syndrome: Spontaneous growth in 150 cases and review of the literature

1983 • 335 citations

Maturational timing and overweight prevalence in US adolescent girls

2001 • 318 citations

Common genetic influences on BMI and age at menarche.

1995 • 307 citations

Growth and Physiological Development During Adolescence

1968 • 271 citations

Physical growth from birth to 16 years and longitudinal outcome of the study during the same age period

1976 • 269 citations

Secular Growth Changes

1978 • 269 citations

Skeletal stages of the hand and wrist as indicators of the pubertal growth spurt

1980 • 259 citations

Early Puberty: Rapid Progression and Reduced Final Height in Girls With Low Birth Weight

2000 • 209 citations

Analysis of Linear Growth Using a Mathematical Model

1987 • 208 citations

Influence of Perinatal Factors on the Onset of Puberty in Boys and Girls: Implications for Interpretation of Link with Risk of Long Term Diseases

1999 • 201 citations

Trends in pubertal development in Europe

2001 • 196 citations

Components of weight at menarche and the initiation of the adolescent growth spurt in girls: estimated total water, llean body weight and fat.

1973 • 185 citations

Modelling Human Growth

2002 • 163 citations

Relationship between Concentration of Serum Leptin and Fetal Growth

1997 • 161 citations

Linear Growth as a Function of Age at Onset of Puberty and Sex Steroid Dosage: Therapeutic Implications*

1988 • 160 citations

Secular trend in the sexual maturation of Southern Chinese girls

1997 • 141 citations

Secular Changes in Growth

1996 • 140 citations

Target Height as Predicted by Parental Heights in a Population-Based Study

1998 • 131 citations

Analysis of Linear Growth Using a Mathematical Model. II. From 3 to 21 Years of Age

1987 • 128 citations

Linear growth retardation in relation to the three phases of growth.

1994 • 123 citations

Short stature and delayed puberty in gymnasts: Influence of selection bias on leg length and the duration of training on trunk length

2000 • 119 citations

Somatic Pubertal Development

1976 • 118 citations

Serum leptin concentrations in relation to pubertal development

1997 • 106 citations

Changes in serum insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and IGF-binding protein-3 levels during growth hormone treatment in prepubertal short children born small for gestational age.

1996 • 105 citations

Fetal Growth and Early Postnatal Growth Are Related to Blood Pressure in Adults

2000 • 101 citations

Comments on the critical metabolic mass and the age of menarche

1976 • 89 citations

Size at Birth and Blood Pressure at 3 Years of Age: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ALSPAC)

1999 • 82 citations

New reference for the age at childhood onset of growth and secular trend in the timing of puberty in Swedish

2000 • 78 citations

Long-Term Consequences of Early Linear Growth Retardation (Stunting) in Swedish Children

2000 • 77 citations

The role of leptin in human growth and puberty

1999 • 66 citations

Serum Leptin Levels Correlate with Growth Hormone Secretion and Body Fat in Children*

1999 • 60 citations

Changes in serum insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and IGF-binding protein-3 levels during growth hormone treatment in prepubertal short children born small for gestational age

1996 • 55 citations

Relationship between Concentration of Serum Leptin and Fetal Growth

1997 • 53 citations

Onset of Significant GH Dependence of Serum IGF-I and IGF-Binding Protein 3 Concentrations in Early Life

2001 • 52 citations

Hormonal events during female puberty in relation to breast cancer risk.

1996 • 52 citations

The genetic contribution to pubertal growth and development studied by longitudinal growth data on twins

1983 • 52 citations

Growth Hormone, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I and Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-3 Are Regulated Differently in Small-for-Gestational-Age and Appropriate-for-Gestational-Age Neonates

1998 • 47 citations

Growth and Timing of Puberty: Reciprocal Effects

1991 • 39 citations

Serum leptin in short children born small for gestational age: relationship with the growth response to growth hormone treatment. The Swedish Study Group for Growth Hormone Treatment

1997 • 37 citations

The Rate of Growth and Maturing of Twins

1977 • 37 citations

Neuroscience Meeting Brief 2: Leptin: A Trigger for Puberty?

1996 • 36 citations

Risk factors for impaired length growth in early life viewed in terms of the infancy-childhood-puberty (ICP) growth model

1998 • 36 citations

Constitutional Delay of Growth and Puberty: Do They Really Reach Their Target Height?

1991 • 29 citations

Hormonal status of short children born small for gestational age

1997 • 29 citations

Growth Stunting in Early Life in Relation to the Onset of the Childhood Component of Growth

1998 • 28 citations

Stature and stature distribution in recent West German and historic samples of Italian and Dutch conscripts

1995 • 26 citations

The Genetics of Adult Stature

1978 • 23 citations

The human growth curve

1998 • 19 citations

Early linear growth retardation in Chongqing, China

1999 • 7 citations

The Improvement in Growth, Socioeconomic and Health Status in Hong Kong Chinese Infants in the First Two Years of Life - 1967 to 1994

1998 • 4 citations