Figure 1
From: The relation of menarcheal age to obesity in childhood and adulthood: the Bogalusa heart study
Relation of menarcheal age and childhood obesity to smoothed (lowess) levels of BMI throughout life among white (top) and black (bottom) women. The left panels show BMI levels among women with an early (<12 y), intermediate (12 to 13.4 y), or late (≥ 13.5) menarcheal age. The right panels show BMI levels within categories of both childhood BMI (Z-score ≥ 0 vs. Z-score < 0) and menarcheal age (early vs late).