Fig. 5.

Reasons for providers to treat constitutional delay with sex steroids. Providers chose from a list of reasons for starting sex-steroid therapy for self-limited delayed puberty in boys and in girls. Reasons to initiate medical management of delayed puberty were compared between boys and girls by McNemar’s test. The white bars represent girls and the black bars boys. Asterisks denote statistically significant within-provider differences (p<0.05) between reasons given for girls and for boys. 2°: Secondary