Dairy intake in relation to breast and pubertal development in Chilean girls

• Published in: The American journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 105; no. 5; pp. 1166 - 1175
• Main Authors: Gaskins, Audrey J, Pereira, Ana, Quintiliano, Daiana, Shepherd, John A, Uauy, Ricardo, Corvalán, Camila, Michels, Karin B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc 01.05.2017; American Society for Nutrition
• Subjects: Absorptiometry, Photon; Age; Age Factors; Animals; Beverages; Breast; Breast - growth & development; Breasts; Child; childhood; Children; Chile; cohort studies; dairy consumption; Dairy Products; Data processing; Diet; Diet Records; Dietary Sucrose - adverse effects; Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry; Energy consumption; Energy Intake; Energy measurement; Feeding Behavior; Female; Girls; Humans; Longitudinal Studies; low fat milk; Mammary gland; mammary glands; Mammary Glands, Human; Menarche; Mental Recall; Milk; Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health; obesity; Prospective Studies; Puberty; Puberty, Precocious - etiology; Sexual Maturation; somatotropin; Yogurt; Chile; development; puberty; age at menarche; dairy; breast composition

Frequent dairy consumption in childhood has been related to higher growth-hormone concentrations that may affect mammary gland and pubertal development. We evaluated the relation of dairy intake to breast composition at Tanner stage 4 and age at menarche. A total of 515 Chilean girls are included in...