Co-education with Environmental Cues May Kindle Early Onset of Female Puberty.

One of such comparative studies in Tanzania reported girls attending schools with boys are reporting early onset of puberty and experience menarche.[ 26 ] Thus, the question may arise how spending time with juvenile males in school could be responsible for early puberty, as they themselves are not rich in sex hormones? In this regard, some stimulating research works have been done which report an increasing trend of androgen levels in prepubertal males for last 30 years.[ 27 28 29 30 31 32 ] According to those articles, the testis is not completely silent before onset of puberty.

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