Delayed puberty is seen in: (A) Hypothyroidism, (B) Turnur's syndrome, (C) Malabsorbtion syndrome, (D) Chronic disease
Answer is D. Delayed puberty may be related to chronic, reversible causes like systemic disease, malnutrition,eating disorders,hyperprolactinemia,and hypothyroidism.Irreversible defects include the destruction of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis by infection, surgery, tumour. All these are due to chronic disease.