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Secular trends in menarcheal age among Ghanaian women in Accra

R. M. K. Adanu Department of Obstetrics and GynaecologyCorrespondence[email protected]
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A. G. Hill Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health
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J. D. Seffah Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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R. Darko Department of Surgery, University of Ghana Medical School
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J. K. Anarfi Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
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R. B. Duda Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pages 550-554 | Published online: 02 Jul 2009

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P. M. Opare-Addo, M. Stowe, F. Ankobea-Kokroe & T. Zheng. (2012) Menarcheal and pubertal development and determining factors among schoolgirls in Kumasi, Ghana. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 32:2, pages 159-165.
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Tuğba Adalı & İsmet Koç. (2011) Menarcheal age in Turkey: Secular trend and socio-demographic correlates. Annals of Human Biology 38:3, pages 345-353.
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Sarah Prentice, Antony J. Fulford, Landing M. A. Jarjou, Gail R. Goldberg & Ann Prentice. (2010) Evidence for a downward secular trend in age of menarche in a rural Gambian population. Annals of Human Biology 37:5, pages 717-721.
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Mobolaji Ibitoye, Theo G. M. Sandfort, Jeffrey B. Bingenheimer & Marni Sommer. (2024) The sexual and reproductive health covariates of early menarche among adolescent girls. Journal of Adolescence.
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Benedict N. L. Calys-Tagoe, Justice M. K. Aheto, George Mensah, Richard B. Biritwum & Alfred E. Yawson. (2020) Cervical cancer screening practices among women in Ghana: evidence from wave 2 of the WHO study on global AGEing and adult health. BMC Women's Health 20:1.
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Tiziana Leone & Laura J Brown. (2020) Timing and determinants of age at menarche in low-income and middle-income countries. BMJ Global Health 5:12, pages e003689.
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Abdorrahim Afkhamzadeh, Khaled Rahmani, Azadeh Habibi & Obeidollah Faraji. (2018) Menarche Age and Its Association to Body Mass Index and Socioeconomic Status Among School Girls in Sanandaj in North-West of Iran. Shiraz E-Medical Journal In Press:In Press.
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Mobolaji Ibitoye, Cecilia Choi, Hina Tai, Grace Lee & Marni Sommer. (2017) Early menarche: A systematic review of its effect on sexual and reproductive health in low- and middle-income countries. PLOS ONE 12:6, pages e0178884.
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Kitae Sohn. (2016) Improvement in the biological standard of living in 20th century Korea: Evidence from age at menarche. American Journal of Human Biology 29:1.
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Evans Paul Kwame Ameade & Helene Akpene Garti. (2016) Age at Menarche and Factors that Influence It: A Study among Female University Students in Tamale, Northern Ghana. PLOS ONE 11:5, pages e0155310.
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Felix R. Day, John R.B. Perry & Ken K. Ong. (2015) Genetic Regulation of Puberty Timing in Humans. Neuroendocrinology 102:4, pages 247-255.
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Praveen Kumar Pathak, Niharika Tripathi & S. V. Subramanian. (2014) Secular Trends in Menarcheal Age in India-Evidence from the Indian Human Development Survey. PLoS ONE 9:11, pages e111027.
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