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. 2020 Aug;258:113058. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113058

Table 2.

Body mass index, overweight and obesity and the association (β* and P-value) between BMI z-scores and the timing of adrenarche, thelarche and menarche in Bangladeshi, First-Generation, Second-Generation and white British girls in the ABBY Project, derived from Weibull Models.

N Body Size
Pubertal Outcomes
BMI
Overweight/Obese
Adrenarche
Thelarche
Menarche
Mean (SD) % β P β p β p
Overall 410 18.2 (3.9) 25% 0.08 0.16 0.29 <0.001 0.10 0.34
Bangladeshi 165 16.4 (3.4) 8.4% 0.09 0.37 0.48 0.001 0.38 0.08
First-Generation 39 19.6 (4.3) 35% 0.28 0.33 0.02 0.92 −0.23 0.50
Second-Generation 156 18.8 (3.6) 32% 0.07 0.49 0.06 0.59 −0.09 0.61
White British 50 19.9 (3.8) 48% 0.37 0.18 0.82 0.01 0.39 0.30

*a positive β represents an earlier age at pubertal outcome per unit increase in BMI z-score.