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The goal of the current study was to determine whether early menarche was associated with any SRH outcomes in a sample of Ghanaian girls.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study data were drawn from the baseline assessment of a longitudinal study involving two age cohorts (13\u201314 and 18\u201319 years) of 700 adolescent girls from Ghana. Logistic regressions were used to assess the association between early menarche (before age 13) and seven SRH outcomes (adolescent sexual activity, early sexual initiation, inconsistent condom use, transactional sex, sexual violence, multiple sexual partners, and adolescent pregnancy).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Early menarche was significantly associated with adolescent sexual activity (odds ratio [OR]\u2009=\u20096.4; 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.1\u201319.7), and sexual violence (OR\u2009=\u20093.2; 95% CI 1.6\u20136.2) in the younger cohort and early sexual initiation (OR\u2009=\u20093.2; 95% CI 1.19\u20138.61) and multiple sexual partners (OR\u2009=\u20093.7; 95% CI 1.39\u20139.87) in the older cohort. Early menarche was also associated with transactional sex and teen pregnancy in the full sample.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These findings suggest the need for special attention to the needs of early\u2010maturing girls in SRH programming. Interventions are needed to delay adolescent sexual activity in girls with early menarche. 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