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Adolescent girls sit at the intersection of two under-studied populations. The consequences show up in dosing, diagnosis and how symptoms are interpreted.
Severe menstrual pain affects a large minority of adolescents, causes measurable absence from school, and has effective treatments that many of those affected have never been offered.
Average diagnostic delays for several conditions affecting young women are measured in years. The mechanism is a sequence of individually reasonable decisions.
The average age of puberty onset in girls has fallen over the past century and continues to fall. Curricula, facilities and safeguarding assumptions are calibrated to older data.
Some approaches have decent evidence, some have none, and at least one widely used format has been found to make things worse.
Low energy availability is common in adolescent athletes, frequently unintentional, and has consequences for bone density that do not fully reverse.