Not necessarily. Doctors consider the growth charts along with a child's overall well-being, environment, and genetic background. For example: No. Girls and boys are measured on different growth ...

about 2 years later than that of girls. By age 16, most boys have stopped growing, but their muscles will continue to develop. Despite data collected for growth charts, "normal" heights and weights ...

So when the pediatrician whips out a growth chart and ranks baby's height and ... that means that out of a group of 100 girls her age, she's bigger than 24 of them and smaller than 75 of them.

What does that mean? I'm still worried! A. If your baby is "following the curve" of the growth chart, she's paralleling one of the percentile lines on the chart, and the odds are good that her ...

Background Current growth charts depict a child's height allowing for age and gender, but they ignore pubertal development. In adolescence height depends on pubertal development as well as age and ...