The launch of A Girl's First Period Study: Demystifying reproductive hormone profiles in adolescent girls

Limited data exist on the reproductive hormone dynamics that govern the transition from menarche to the establishment of the mature ovulatory cycles of a fertile young woman.  It is also unclear how environmental and lifestyle factors may modulate this transition in contemporary girls. Here we introduce A Girl's First Period Study, an ambitious longitudinal study aimed at charting the early post-menarchal course of a cohort of healthy girls in the Triangle region of No rth Carolina.

Source: Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology - January 11, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Janet N Lucien, Madison T Ortega, Madison E Calvert, Cynthia Smith, Xiomara White, Heidi Rogers, Brittany Mosley, Ruhani Agrawal, Anna Drude, Christopher McGee, Margaret George, Audrey Brown, Kimberly Downey, Catherine Wild, Alexander Njunge, Cherie M Kuz Source Type: research