Urinary gonadotrophins: a useful non-invasive marker of activation of the hypothalamic pituitary-gonadal axis

Table 1 Patient demographics grouped by pubertal status

	Pre-pubertal boys	Pre-pubertal girls	Pubertal boys	Pubertal girls
N	28	22	48	63
Age (yrs) (Median, 10^th & 90^th centiles)	7.8 (6.2, 11.6)	8.4 (5.5, 12.6)	15.0 (12.2, 17.4)	13.6 (10.7, 17.0)
Height SDS (Median, 10^th & 90^th centiles)	− 0.1 (− 1.2, 1.3)	−0.3 (−1.5, 0.8)	0.3 (−0.9, 1.2)	−0.1 (−0.9, 1.4)
BMI SDS (Median, 10^th & 90^th centiles)	0.4 (− 1.1, 1.9)	0.2 (− 1.8, 1.4)	0.6 (− 0.8, 1.5)	0.1 (− 0.8, 1.6)
Pubertal Stage II/III/IV/V			10/11/19/8	12/20/19/12

Data reported as median (10^th and 90^th centiles). Height and BMI SDS score are based on the British 1990 growth reference data [11].

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