ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Hormone Research in Paediatrics 2020;93:548–557https://bit.ly/2ToJvmvThe authors studied 2,657 German children aged 5-18 years to look for social patterning in the age at puberty timing and circulating gonadotrophin levels. Lower socio-economic status (SES) was associated with earlier thelarche, longer duration of puberty, and overweight in girls, but not age at menarche. In boys, lower SES showed a tren...