Pubertad en adolescentes de áreas rurales y urbanas

introduction: the genetic factors determine a potential growth, but the environment inhibits and to speed up its expression. objective: to determine the behavior according the urban or rural origin of the variables related to the pubertal development: telarche, pubarche and menarche. methods: a correlation and descriptive study was conducted in urban and rural adolescents from the holguín province from january, 2009 to january, 2010 subject to informed consent and in suitable environment they were polled in a semistructured form. a database was created with its latter statistic descriptive processing including: percentage analysis, standard deviation (sd), arithmetic mean and t-student test; estimation necessary to obtain the results. results: in adolescents from rural the telarche appears at the 11,36 years old and in the urban ones at 10,36 years old. the pubarche was manifested at 11,18 and 10,36 years old in the rural and urban area, respectively. the menarche appears at 12,4 and 11,14 years old in the rural and urban areas, that is, the puberty appears a year before in the urban area. conclusion: it was significant the difference in mean age in the urban area and the onset of puberty.