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Decline in menarcheal age among Saudi girls

Ibrahim A. Al Alwan, Areej A. Ibrahim, Motasim A. Badri, Mohammed S. Al Dubayee and Bassam S. Bin-Abbas
Saudi Medical Journal November 2015, 36 (11) 1324-1328; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.11.13604
Ibrahim A. Al Alwan
From the Educational Affairs (Al Alwan), the Department of Basic Sciences (Badri), College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, and the Department of Pediatrics (Ibrahim), Children’s Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, and the Department of Pediatrics (Al Dubayee), Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, and the Department of Pediatrics (Bin-Abbas), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Areej A. Ibrahim
From the Educational Affairs (Al Alwan), the Department of Basic Sciences (Badri), College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, and the Department of Pediatrics (Ibrahim), Children’s Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, and the Department of Pediatrics (Al Dubayee), Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, and the Department of Pediatrics (Bin-Abbas), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohammed S. Al Dubayee
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vol. 36 no. 11 1324-1328
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.11.13604
PubMed 
26593166

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received September 10, 2015
  • Accepted September 22, 2015
  • Published online November 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Ibrahim A. Al Alwan, MD⇑,
  2. Areej A. Ibrahim, MD,
  3. Motasim A. Badri, PhD,
  4. Mohammed S. Al Dubayee, MD and
  5. Bassam S. Bin-Abbas, MD
  1. From the Educational Affairs (Al Alwan), the Department of Basic Sciences (Badri), College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, and the Department of Pediatrics (Ibrahim), Children’s Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, and the Department of Pediatrics (Al Dubayee), Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, and the Department of Pediatrics (Bin-Abbas), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Prof. Ibrahim A. Al Alwan, Educational Affairs, College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: alwani{at}ksau-hs.edu.sa
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