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7425550

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1980-12-18
pubmed:abstractText
Three methods of predicting a child's adult height are in common use: Bayley and Pinneau (1952), Tanner et al. (1975) and Roche et al. (1975). The relative accuracies of these methods have been assessed using growth records (22 male, 24 female) from the Child Research Council, Denver, Colorado. A series of six ages from five years to mid-adolescence was examined. Testing all methods and ages within each sex with a multivariate design yielded significant differences in the methods' accuracies, but inspection of the data by age disclosed that the major discrimination occurred during adolescence, not childhood. Results also indicated that the method of skeletal age assessment (either Greulich--Pyle or TW2) is more critical to accurate height prediction than is the choice of prediction method per se. This is because of inter-population differences in the rate and pattern of progress towards maturity and thus indicates the need to compare the children under examination to the most appropriate population standards available.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0301-4460
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
225-34
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Predicting adult stature: a comparison of methodologies.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't