Obesity is associated with sexual maturation in both boys and girls, but there is a difference by gender.
United States researcher Dr. Y. Wang of the University of Illinois at Chicago reports obese girls are twice as likely to mature early (odds ratio, 2.0), but obese boys are less than half as likely to mature early (odds ratio, 0.4) in comparison with other children.
“Fatness (body mass index and skinfold thickness) was associated with sexual maturation stages and with early maturation in boys and girls, but the association were in opposite directions,” Dr. Wang points out. “Compared with their counterparts, early maturing boys were thinner, whereas early maturing girls were fatter.”
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