Forty years trends in timing of pubertal growth spurt in 157,000 Danish school children.

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Published in PLoS One on July 16, 2008

Authors

Lise Aksglaede1, Lina W Olsen, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Anders Juul

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1: University Department of Growth and Reproduction, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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