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15.16. Early maturity as the new normal: a century-long study of bone age

Boeyer Melanie E , Sherwood Richard J , Deroche Chelsea B , Duren Dana L

To read the full abstract: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 476(11):2112–2122, 2018The century-long Fels Longitudinal Study of human growth and development aimed to track when growth plate fusion started and completed in children born as far back as 1915. Among 1292 children, each with between 1 to 30 serial left hand-wrist radiographs, children born in the 1990s reached ...