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Abstract Recently, As the prevalence of precocious is increased in Korea This study was evaluated the physical growth and female sex hormone characteristics of girls with Idiopathic precocious puberty. Retrospective analysis about the medical record of 113 girls for evaluation of signs of precocious puberty except for organic causes was done. Physical growth features and Female sexual hormone were analyzed. Height SDS and Weight SDS were significantly increased in true sexual precocity compared to pseudo sexual precocity. Hormone studies showed that the level of basal LH, FSH, E2 was significantly higher in true precocious puberty. The finding of this study suggest that we need to develop intervention about physical and psychological problems for precocious puberty girls. Key Words : Precocious puberty, True precocious puberty, Pseudo precocious puberty, Physical growth, Female sexual hormone Received 21 June 2014, Revised 29 August 2014Accepted 20 September 2014Corresponding Author: Myung Kim(Dept. of Health Education and Management, Health Science College, Ewha Womans University) Email: mykim@ewha.ac.krⒸ The Society of Digital Policy & Management. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is 1738-1916 properlyISSN: cited.

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