Pandemic and precocious puberty - a Google trends study

Table 1 Worldwide searches in English for precocious puberty-related terms vs time

Search terms	Tau (P value)
Puberty-related terms per se
“Puberty”	+0.351 (< 0.001)
“Precocious puberty”	+0.048 (0.250)
“Early puberty”	+0.130 (< 0.001)
Body-related terms
“Hair”	+0.114 (0.008)
“Pubic”	-0.567 (< 0.001)
“Pubic hair”	-0.499 (< 0.001)
“Axillary”	+0.254 (< 0.001)
“Axillary hair”	+0.146, (< 0.001)
“Height”	+0.713 (< 0.001)
Female body-related terms
“Breast”	-0.219 (< 0.001)
“Breast enlargement”	-0.497 (< 0.001)
Menstruation-related terms
“Menarche”	+0.125 (0.003)
“Menses”	-0.556 (< 0.001)
“Period”	+0.584 (< 0.001)
Male body-related terms
“Testes”	+0.119 (0.004)
“Testicles”	-0.506 (< 0.001)
“Testicular enlargement”	+0.024 (0.601)
“Penis”	-0.726 (< 0.001)
“Penis growth”	-0.226 (< 0.001)
“Scrotum”	-0.262 (< 0.001)
“Scrotum growth”	-0.006 (0.881)