A child's adult height is influenced by a number of factors, including genetics, sex, and overall health and nutrition. Genetics and the child's gender account for 70% of what goes into deciding how tall a child will be. The other 30% comes from environmental factors, such as nutrition, exercise, and any underlying health problems.
Pediatrician rely on a reference entitled Radiographic Atlas of Skeletal Development of the Hand and Wrist written by Greulich and Pyle.
A reasonable good estimate of a youngster's height at maturity can be made knowing the child's bone age and chronological age.
Another approach is based on the fact that most healthy children will grow to a height that is somewhere between their mother's and father's heights.
This method predicts adult height by adding the parents' heights together, dividing by two, then adding three inches for a boy (or subtracting three for a girl). While this method is fairly accurate, the child's ultimate height can vary by as much as five inches above or below this calculation.
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Hello Amy,
That is a good question.
A child's adult height is influenced by a number of factors, including genetics, sex, and overall health and nutrition. Genetics and the child's gender account for 70% of what goes into deciding how tall a child will be. The other 30% comes from environmental factors, such as nutrition, exercise, and any underlying health problems.
Pediatrician rely on a reference entitled Radiographic Atlas of Skeletal Development of the Hand and Wrist written by Greulich and Pyle.
A reasonable good estimate of a youngster's height at maturity can be made knowing the child's bone age and chronological age.
Another approach is based on the fact that most healthy children will grow to a height that is somewhere between their mother's and father's heights.
This method predicts adult height by adding the parents' heights together, dividing by two, then adding three inches for a boy (or subtracting three for a girl). While this method is fairly accurate, the child's ultimate height can vary by as much as five inches above or below this calculation.
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October 31, 2014 - 9:49amMaryann
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