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Undersøgelse af virkningen af ​​fedme på pubertetsudvikling hos piger

7. november 2026 opdateret af: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Background:

Studies suggest that overweight girls may be developing breast tissue, and therefore starting puberty, earlier than normal weight girls. However, it is hard to distinguish breast tissue from fatty tissue. Researchers think that by using breast ultrasound, among other tests, they can do a better job of telling whether an overweight girl has breast tissue. This will help them understand if overweight girls are truly entering puberty before normal weight girls.

Objective:

To find out if overweight girls go through puberty earlier than normal weight girls.

Eligibility:

Healthy girls 8-14 years old who:

  • Are normal weight or overweight
  • Have some breast development
  • Have not started their first period

Design:

Parents of participants will be screened over the phone.

Most participants will have 1 visit. However, they can choose to have multiple visits within 4 weeks. The visit will include:

  • Physical exam that includes examination of the breasts and genital area
  • Breast ultrasound: A small hand-held device will be passed back and forth over the chest. It uses sound waves to create a picture of the breast tissue.
  • Pelvic ultrasound: A small, handheld device will be passed back and forth over the lower belly. It uses sound waves to create a picture of the ovaries.
  • Urine and blood test
  • A special x-ray called a DXA to measure the amount of fat in the body: The participant will lie still on a table while the x-ray takes pictures of the body.

X-ray of the hand: The picture will tell researchers how mature the participant s bones are.

Participants may be asked to come back 6 months later to repeat these tests.

Studieoversigt

Status

Aktiv, ikke rekrutterende

Betingelser

Detaljeret beskrivelse

Over the past decade, there has been an alarming trend toward earlier breast development in girls. The contemporaneous obesity epidemic has led to speculation that obesity may be driving early puberty. However, questions remain about the validity of reports of early puberty among obese girls due to the difficulty in distinguishing fatty tissue from breast tissue in this population. The physiological basis for early puberty among obese girls is also unknown. The current proposal aims to investigate pubertal development in pre-menarchal obese compared with normal weight girls using more robust methods such as breast morphological staging via ultrasonography and intensive reproductive axis phenotyping. Study procedures include blood draws, DXA (for body composition), hand x-ray (for bone age), breast and transabdominal (pelvic) ultrasounds, and anthropometrics.

Undersøgelsestype

Observationel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

93

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

  • Forenede Stater
    • North Carolina
      • Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Forenede Stater, 27709
        • NIEHS, Research Triangle Park

Deltagelseskriterier

Forskere leder efter personer, der passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kaldet berettigelseskriterier. Nogle eksempler på disse kriterier er en persons generelle helbredstilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.

Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

8 år til 14 år (Barn)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Kvinde

Prøveudtagningsmetode

Sandsynlighedsprøve

Studiebefolkning

community sample

Beskrivelse

  • INCLUSION CRITERIA:
  • Girls without a chronic medical condition
  • Normal weight (BMI 5th-85th%) or overweight/obese (BMI > 85th%)
  • 8-14 years old
  • Some breast development
  • Pre-menarchal

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

  • Treated with medications that may affect reproductive hormones (e.g. birth control pills).
  • Pregnancy

During the study, the PI s discretion may be used to determine final eligibility. The PI s discretion may be used at any point in the study (pre-screening, clinical/lab assessments, etc.) to ensure participants are not subjected to unnecessary procedures or visits.

Studieplan

Dette afsnit indeholder detaljer om studieplanen, herunder hvordan undersøgelsen er designet, og hvad undersøgelsen måler.

Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Observationsmodeller: COHORT
  • Tidsperspektiver: PROSPECTIVE

Kohorter og interventioner

Gruppe / kohorte
normal weight

Girls age 8-14 below 85% in respect to weight for their age group
overweight

Girls age 8-14 at or above 85% in respect to weight for their age group

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
To determine the correlation between Tanner breast staging and breast maturation scores using breast ultrasound in girls
Tidsramme: semiannually

To test the hypothesis that breast maturation in obese and normal weight girls primarily reflects hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian activation as opposed to local (breast adipose tissue) estrogen production, we will use linear regression to determine if the relationship between breast maturation and ovarian size, uterine size and bone age (all markers of end organ response to estrogen) differs between the two weight groups (group by ovarian/uterine size/bone age interaction term). The finding of similar regression lines in the two groups would support this hypothesis while an upward shift in the regression line (greater y-intercept, similar slope) in the obese girls would indicate that a given breast maturation stage is achieved at a smaller ovarian/uterine volume and younger bone age in obese girls, suggesting the presence of an additional source of estrogen (adipose tissue) in obese girls.
semiannually

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
To determine the contribution of peripheral aromatization to breast development in obese girls.
Tidsramme: semiannually

Repeated measures from the same subject (visits 1,2, and follow up visits) will provide preliminary data for future studies investigating whether there is a difference in the pace of pubertal development in obese compared with normal weight girls. Squamous cells in the urine sample will be categorized as either superficial (mature; eg indicating estrogen exposure) or other . The primary measure of estrogenization will be the percent of superficial cells (%S), as previously described (Adgent 13, Robine 88). The %S will be compared between normal weight and obese subjects after controlling for breast stage determined by ultrasound. We anticipate that up to 25% of urine specimens may need to be excluded because of insufficient cells or inflammation and this may require an increase in enrollment.
semiannually

Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere

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Sponsor

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Efterforskere

  • Ledende efterforsker: Natalie D Shaw, M.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Publikationer og nyttige links

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Generelle publikationer

Hjælpsomme links

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart (Faktiske)

15. december 2015

Primær færdiggørelse (Anslået)

9. september 2027

Studieafslutning (Anslået)

9. september 2027

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

21. oktober 2015

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

21. oktober 2015

Først opslået (Anslået)

22. oktober 2015

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)

10. november 2026

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

7. november 2026

Sidst verificeret

11. september 2026

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Nøgleord

Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • 160006
  • 16-E-0006

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