Fig 1.
Flow diagram of the study participants.
Table 1.
Classification of maturational stages of breast development and pubic hair growth by Tanner and current study.
Table 2.
Distributions of age and maturational stages of breast development and pubic hair growth at baseline and follow-up visits of adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh.
Fig 2.
Prevalence of pubertal maturational stages by age at assessment of adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh.
A, Percent attainment of breast development stages B2+ and, B, B3-4. C, Percent attainment of pubic hair growth stages PH2+ and, D, PH3-4. E, Prevalence of menarche. All ages are centered on birth dates ± 6 months.
Fig 3.
Cumulative frequency curves for pubertal development of adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh.
Abbreviations: B2, stage 2 for breast development; B3-4, stage 3–4 for breast development; PH2, stage 2 for pubic hair growth; PH3-4, stage 3–4 for pubic hair growth. Patterns represent composite of two assessments ~1 year apart. All ages are centered on birth dates ± 6 months.
Table 3.
Ages at which different stages of secondary sex characteristics and menarche were attained1.
Table 4.
Mean or median age at the onset of secondary sex characteristics reported from different populations.