title: Standard growth curve chart for body height of Chinese adolescent for orthodontic diagnosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To make a standard growth curve chart on the body height of Chinese adolescents.
  
  
  METHODS
  Statistical data from 32,524 Sichuan students aged 7 to 19 years were surveyed in 1995. Mean values of the annual increment of body height and the ages of the pubertal growth periods were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During the period between 9 and 13 years of age, females grow faster than their male peers. After age 13 years, males surpass females, and the difference in physical growth and development becomes more pronounced.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The new standard growth curve chart on the body height of Chinese adolescent may be applied to better understand the growth pattern of Chinese orthodontic patients.
authors.affiliation: College of Stomatology, West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, P. R. China.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lou
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Xiong
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent / Q000502:physiology*; D044466:Asian People; D001827:Body Height / Q000208:ethnology*; D002648:Child; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000175:diagnosis; D012015:Reference Standards; D012016:Reference Values