How to Use pubertal in a Sentence

pubertal

adjective
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  • Herman-Giddens went on to lead a study of pubertal development in some seventeen thousand girls in the U.S., published in the journal Pediatrics in 1997.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Only a few studies have examined the topic on a long-term basis, and these had small sample sizes, incomplete follow-up and poor measures of pubertal timing, the authors said.
    — Christina Caron, New York Times, 18 May 2020
  • Lifestyle factors like a lack of physical activity have also been linked to changes in pubertal timing.
    — New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • And in a follow-up study, the researchers found that the students, especially boys, with higher levels of testosterone (a marker of pubertal maturation in both boys and girls) were most likely to respond well to the intervention.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Pre-pubertal transgender children can often begin a social transition, changing one’s name and pronouns, or wearing a style that aligns best with their identity.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Increases in childhood weight, based on body mass index calculations at age 8, were related to earlier pubertal timing in boys, but didn't explain the full picture.
    — Minali Nigam, CNN, 22 July 2019
  • The amount of food supply that a person’s grandparents were exposed to in their pre-pubertal years had a measurable effect on that person’s cardio-vascular risk two generations later.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2017
  • The study, the first of its kind to examine access to pubertal suppression and suicidality, was published Thursday in the medical journal Pediatrics.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Precocious or early puberty is defined as the development of pubertal changes among children earlier than what is considered normal, which stands at 8 for girls and 9 for boys.
    — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Despite the intense political focus on young transgender children, only 10 percent of the children arriving at her clinic are pre-pubertal.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Those studies looked at how childhood adversity correlated with pubertal timing, cellular aging and changes in brain structure.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The legislation would contradict medical guidelines from several associations, including the Endocrine Society, which has guidelines that recommend doctors offer transgender teens pubertal suppression therapy, also known as puberty blocking.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 23 Jan. 2020

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