Weight at menarche in deaf girls
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Behavioral Assessment of Hearing in 2 to 4 Year-old Children: A Two-interval, Observer-based Procedure Using Conditioned Play-based Responses
Published on: January 23, 2017
Annals of Human Biology
|September 1, 1979
Abstract:
Weight at menarche of a mixed longitudinal sample of deaf American girls was analysed with regard to its variability and association with their earlier than normal age at menarche. The 'critical weight' hypothesis of Frisch and Revelle (1970, 1971) specifies the attainment of a certain body weight necessary for the onset of menstruation with a concomitant reduction in its variability. The findings herein suggest this hypothesis is not applicable to deaf girls.
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