Are the doctor's predictions usually right about your height?

Question

When I was like 2 a doctor predicted I would be 6'4' by some kind of formula or something. Is this true? Right now I'm 14 and 5'11", if that helps at all.

Answer 1

Our predictions are based on 1) generalities, 2) standard growth curves, and sometimes 3) mid-parental height tables.

An example of a generality is the final height of a girl is twice that of her height at age two. For boys, double the height at age 2 years 6 months to predict final height. That will work for a good percentage of the population, but certainly not for all.

Predicting height from a standard growth curve will also work for much of the population, but there are always persons who deviate from the norm. I, for example, was short as a child and teen, but had a late growth spurt.

Growth is primarily affected by genetics, but nutrition and intervening illness play a role. The average American male is about two inches taller than his contemporary in the 1930s. Children who have lengthy illnesses, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is one example, will often be shorter than predicted.

Answer 2

There's a reason why the tables pediatricians use are pretty accurate and it's because they have done research for years comparing the height children had of a specific region and their height as adults.

It would also make sense that the pediatrician guessed your height when he looked at your siblings and parents. If your dad is over 6 feet tall, you have a higher genetic probability to be hig height or even taller.

You can measure your remaining growth bones on an x-ray as a teenager. They did that to me when i was 12 because I was unusually short even for my genetics (but got a late growth spurt because I started to go to the gym obsessively when I was 15), and from the x-rays, the pediatrician guessed I still had another 5 years where I could continue growing. They did the same test on my older sister and correctly guessed that she only had 2 years left at the most. I ended up being slightly taller than her.

Answer 3

According to me it may or may not be true. it depends on our balanced diet ultimately.so if one does not take his meals properly than its not possible to reach that height so ultimately it depends on u and not the doctor.