1. Intense training in elite female athletes: evidence of reduced growth and delayed maturation?
- Author
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Shona Bass, Robin M. Daly, and Dennis Caine
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Letter ,Adolescent ,Population ,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation ,Growth ,Affect (psychology) ,Child Development ,Medicine ,Humans ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Sexual Maturation ,education ,Child ,Sampling bias ,Menarche ,education.field_of_study ,Physical Education and Training ,biology ,Anthropometry ,business.industry ,Athletes ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,Child development ,Cohort ,Physical therapy ,Female ,business ,Demography ,Sports - Abstract
In their recent article Intensive training in elite young female athletes, Baxter-Jones and Maffulli reviewed 18 studies and concluded “training does not appear to affect growth and maturation.”1 We have two concerns about this conclusion. Firstly, we agree that analyses of cross sectional and cohort data in this population are confounded by sampling bias; gymnasts who are successful at an elite level are likely to be self selected by their small stature and delayed maturation. Furthermore, data from cross sectional …
- Published
- 2002