Tuesday 27 May 2014

What are the factors that influence growth?

What are the factors that influence growth? The main factor is genetics that can be inferred by parental height.

 It makes sense to think that parents have low discount sons and tall parents have tall but, occasionally, children this does not occur.

One way to calculate the target gene of a child is corrected by the average height of the parents.   For girls we have to subtract 13 cm height of the father.

Adding the mother's height and divide this value by two ((father-mother + 13) / 2).   For boys the calculation is done by adding 13 cm to the height of the mother, adding the father's height and dividing by two ((mother + father +13) / 2).

What is the genetic target?   If a couple has 10 normal healthy children, 8 children have statistically final height within the genetic target.

A child will have their final height more than 5 cm above the corrected average height of parents and another child will have their final height more than 5 cm below the corrected average height of parents.

Another factor that influences the final height is health since a child who is not healthy cannot grow well and food and sports make a big difference? 

Actually not much, if the child is healthy.   It is logical that a child who plays sports and feeds properly is more likely to be healthy and make use of their full potential for growth.

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