Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Precocious puberty is thought to occur in 1 in 5000–10 000 people. Precocious puberty is a neglected topic in Pakistan, and little research has been done so far to examine its aetiology in our population, despite its importance and relative prevalence. Objective: To find the frequency of precocious puberty in children and to compare the clinical and laboratory parameters of central and peripheral precocious puberty.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out in Karachi’s National Institute of Child Health’s paediatric endocrinology division between December 2016 and 2021. All patients with precocious puberty will be taken from files through non-probability convenience sampling method. Data was analyzed on SPSS version 22.0

Results: Total 65 patients were included. The mean age was 6+3.35years. Precocious puberty was classified as peripheral precocious puberty in 38 (58.4%), central precocious puberty in 20 (30.76%), premature thelarche in 5(7.69%) and premature pubarche in 2 (3.07%). In the peripheral precocious puberty group, CAH was found in 22(78.5%), out of which 2 patients were of rare mutation of CAH presenting with peripheral precocious puberty (DAX mutation and 11 B hydroxylase mutation, adenocarcinoma was observed in 2(7.14%) followed by Mu-cane–Albright syndrome was in 4(14.28%) and van wykgrumbach syndrome in 10 patients. Central precocious puberty was found in 20 patients hypothalamicharmartoma in 4(20%), craniopharyngioma 3(15%), hypothalamic astrocytoma 1(5.0%), genetically proven neurofibromatosis in 1(5.0%) patient and hydrocephalus 1(5.0%) and in 10(50%) patients no cause was found. All the parameters were significantly comparable with P-value < 0.05.

Conclusion: Peripheral precocious puberty was more common than central precocious puberty in this study. Etiology in majority of cases with peripheral precocious puberty was CAH and idiopathic in central precocious puberty. Central precocious puberty children showed higher height SDS, weight SDS, FSH, LH than those with peripheral precocious puberty.Keywords: Central Precocious Puberty, Girls, Peripheral, Idiop