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Knowing when children with constitutional delay eventually enter puberty would inform this decision.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Objective, Design, Setting, Participants, and Outcome Measures<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>To estimate and compare rates of pubertal entry, we conducted a retrospective cohort study by reviewing medical records of children evaluated for delayed puberty at a large academic medical center between 2000 and 2015, extracting data on pubertal status for all clinical visits, then conducting time-to-event analyses.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Of 392 girls and 683 boys with delayed puberty, constitutional delay was the most common cause, found in 32% of girls and 70% of boys. In a subcohort of 97 girls and 243 boys who were prepubertal at one or more visits, we observed a broad age range for pubertal entry, up to &amp;gt;16 years for girls and &amp;gt;17 years for boys. The probability of entering puberty within the next year for 12- to 15.5-year-old girls and 13.5- to 16.5-year-old boys with delayed puberty ranged between 38% and 74%. No differences in the rates of pubertal entry were seen between girls and boys after data harmonization.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The broad range of ages at pubertal entry for children with constitutional delay challenges the concept that constitutional delay is merely an extreme of normal variation. 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