BACKGROUND Although the accuracy of final height prediction using skeletal age development has been confirmed in many studies for children treated for congenital primary hypothyroidism, short normal children, constitutionally tall children, no studies compared the predicted adult height at young age with final stature in athletic population. AIM In this study, the intention was to investigate...

Underperformance in affluence: the remarkable relative decline in American heights in the second half of the 20th-century Objective: We use the complete set of NHES and NHANES data collected between 1959 and 2004 in order to construct trends for the physical stature of the non-Hispanic white and black US adult population and compare them to those of Western-and Northern-Europeans. Method: Regre...