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Explanations for the link between international adoption and early puberty include post\u2010adoption catch\u2010up growth triggering puberty, and under\u2010recorded age.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We compared menarcheal age in a cohort of 814 girls adopted from China into North America against menarcheal ages in girls in China. Adoptive parents provided survey data on their daughters\u2032 weight in 2005 and on menarcheal status and age at menarche in 2011.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Estimated median age at menarche for adopted Chinese girls is 12.37\u2009years (95% CI: 11.84\u201313.00\u2009years). Estimated prevalence of menarcheal age \u226410.00\u2009years for adopted girls is 3%. These findings are similar to published findings on non\u2010adopted Chinese girls. The distribution of menarche of adopted girls and non\u2010adopted girls at the estimated incidence rates P3\u2013P97 are also similar. Among the 609 girls whose parents reported on their weight shortly after adoption, 148 (24.3%) were \u22122SD or more below the median weight in the WHO weight\u2010for\u2010age tables. The proportion of these girls who had attained menarche was not statistically different from other girls.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>For girls adopted from China, the age of menarche, the percentage of girls attaining menarche &lt;10\u2009years and the distribution of menarcheal age are all similar to Chinese girls growing up in China.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/cch.12393","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,22]],"date-time":"2016-08-22T01:16:40Z","timestamp":1471828600000},"page":"859-862","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Timing of menarche in girls adopted from China: a cohort study"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"42","author":[{"given":"P.","family":"Hayes","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Education and Society, Priestman Building University of Sunderland  Sunderland UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"T. 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