New research reveals that early growth patterns can help predict adult height and pubertal growth, but not when puberty will begin—challenging assumptions about how early development shapes lifelong ...

Growth patterns during the first two years of a child's life may shape pubertal growth and adult height, but have little effect on pubertal timing, according to research presented at the first Joint ...

How tall your child will be may be decided in the first two years, but it won’t tell you when puberty starts. This study sheds light on the lifelong significance of early growth and the limits of its ...