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Giving certain hormone treatments to girls who start puberty too early can help them grow taller as adults.

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Height benefits after GnRHa treatment in girls aged over 6 years with central precocious puberty: a meta-analysis

Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis
Human
2025 Sep

The study looked at girls with early puberty and found that treatment with GnRHa helped them grow taller as adults compared to those who didn’t get the treatment.

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Surpassing genetic height potential at final adult height after monthly depot leuprolide therapy in Taiwanese girls with central precocious or early puberty: a ROC-based analysis

Cohort Study
Human

The study looked at girls with early puberty who were treated with a hormone therapy called GnRHa, and found they grew taller than expected by adulthood, especially if treatment started early.

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For girls who start puberty too early, a treatment using certain hormones can help them grow taller than expected — especially if they get a combo of two hormone treatments.

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Girls with early puberty who get a certain treatment tend to end up slightly taller than what their genes predicted — about half a centimeter more on average.

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Girls with early puberty who get a certain hormone treatment tend to grow about 3 inches taller as adults compared to those who don’t get it, according to a review of several studies.

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Girls with early puberty who get a combo of two treatments don't end up taller as adults than those who get just one treatment, even though the combo helps them grow more during treatment.

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For girls with early puberty who are treated with two hormones (one for puberty and one for growth), the ones who grow more during treatment tend to have started with a lower predicted adult height and more mature bones. How long or how much growth hormone they take doesn’t seem to affect how much they grow.

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