Menarche

Known as: first menstrual cycle 
The beginning of the menstrual cycle; the first menstrual cycle in an individual. [GOC:curators, PMID:16311040]
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2017
Review
2017
Ovarian cancer: epidemiology and risk factors.
The present overview of ovarian cancer epidemiology summarizes the main results for a network of case-control studies in Italy… (More)
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2014
Highly Cited
2014
Parent-of-origin specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche
Age at menarche is a marker of timing of puberty in females. It varies widely between individuals, is a heritable trait and is… (More)
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2010
Highly Cited
2010
Thirty new loci for age at menarche identified by a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies
To identify loci for age at menarche, we performed a meta-analysis of 32 genome-wide association studies in 87,802 women of… (More)
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
Early age at menarche associated with cardiovascular disease and mortality.
CONTEXT The relationship between age at menarche and cardiovascular disease remains unclear. Two recent studies found an inverse… (More)
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2002
Highly Cited
2002
Relation of age at menarche to race, time period, and anthropometric dimensions: the Bogalusa Heart Study.
OBJECTIVE To assess secular trends in menarcheal age between 1973 and 1994 and to determine whether childhood levels of height… (More)
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2001
Highly Cited
2001
Family social class, maternal body mass index, childhood body mass index, and age at menarche as predictors of adult obesity.
BACKGROUND Obesity is an increasingly prevalent nutritional disorder throughout the world and is a risk factor for many chronic… (More)
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1990
Highly Cited
1990
Age at menarche, age at menopause, height and obesity as risk factors for breast cancer: associations and interactions in an international case-control study.
The importance of age at menarche, age at menopause, height, and obesity as risk factors for breast cancer, and the possible… (More)
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1989
Highly Cited
1989
Projecting individualized probabilities of developing breast cancer for white females who are being examined annually.
To assist in medical counseling, we present a method to estimate the chance that a woman with given age and risk factors will… (More)
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1971
Highly Cited
1971
Height and weight at menarche and a hypothesis of menarche.
Frisch, R. E., and Revelle, R. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 695. Height and weight at menarche and a hypothesis… (More)
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1970
Highly Cited
1970
Height and weight at menarche and a hypothesis of critical body weights and adolescent events.
Height and weight at menarche were found for each subject in three longitudinal growth studies. Early and late maturing girls… (More)
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