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@article{Abbassi1998GrowthAN,
  title={Growth and normal puberty.},
  author={Val Abbassi},
  journal={Pediatrics},
  year={1998},
  volume={102 2 Pt 3},
  pages={
          507-11
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:24733669}
}

We reviewed the growth characteristics of American boys and girls from published studies, including age at takeoff, age at peak height velocity, peak height velocity, duration of puberty, and the

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