The phrase "affected puberty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the impact of various factors on the process of puberty, such as health, environment, or medication.
Example: "Certain medical conditions can significantly affect puberty, leading to delayed or accelerated development."
Alternatives: "influenced puberty" or "impacted puberty".
"With children … it can affect puberty, disrupt menstrual cycles and impede normal hormonal development," HuffPost reported.
"Our findings imply that in a family, one parent may more profoundly affect puberty timing in their daughters than the other parent," said lead researcher Dr John Perry of the University of Cambridge.
However, it's not clear how these factors interact to affect puberty, she said.
Each center reported on advances made over the past year in their two research components: 1) research on the basic biology of mammary gland development, and 2) epidemiologic studies of how environmental factors affect puberty in girls.
They work together to integrate community outreach and two lines of research: 1) basic biology of the mammary gland and its development using animal models, and 2) epidemiological studies of how environmental factors affect puberty in girls.
These OCPs and their metabolites such as p,p´-DDE (dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene) are endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that affect puberty and reproductive development in rodents (Courtney 1979; Gray et al. 2001; Kelce et al. 1995; Van Velsen et al. 1986).
Our ability to detect the possible role of xenobiotic chemicals in altering pubertal development is confounded in modern societies by the many nutritional, genetic, and lifestyle factors capable of affecting puberty.
These observations are, we believe, highly relevant as they are in agreement with associations to functional criteria through growth factors (IGF-1) 21 and hormonal balance that strongly controls epidermal, dermal, and skin appendages, 22, 23 including sebaceous function, which are all greatly affected by puberty.
Circulating CORT levels were measured by RIA to determine whether binge EtOH exposure during puberty affected responsiveness of the HPA axis to subsequent EtOH exposures in adulthood.
Conversely, testis size was significantly reduced in adulthood, but was not affected prior to puberty (i.e. at d12, 21 or 35).
