Sentence examples for mean final height from inspiring English sources
At the time of writing, 82 participants had attained a mean final height of 151.8 (SD 6.4) cm, and 10 others continued growing.
According to Davenport [ 3], the mean final height in TS girls is 20 cm below the mean of the normal girls.
Target height can also be expressed as SDS (Z-score), by taking the difference between TH and the mean final height of a young adult of the same sex, and then divide by the SD at that age.
Assuming a standard deviation of 5 cm, we needed 50 girls in each group to detect a difference between groups in mean final height of 2.8 cm with 80% power at 5% significance a total of 100 patients.
The mean effect on final height of oxandrolone, late induction of puberty, or both compared with placebo and early induction was +7.1 cm (that is, the mean final height in the combined oxandrolone/early, oxandrolone/late, and placebo/late groups compared with the placebo/early group), which is appreciably larger than the effects for either randomisation alone (table 3, combination).
Treatment has been well tolerated, such that dropout rates were low (14/106) and the mean final height for the group to date (151.8 cm) is well above the target of 150 cm for girls with Turner's syndrome treated with growth hormone.
By twice randomised group, the mean final heights were placebo/early induction 147.0 cm, placebo/late induction 153.1 cm, oxandrolone/early induction 154.4 cm, and oxandrolone/late induction 155.1 cm (table 1).
The mean final VA was 20/125.
Short stature in Turner's syndrome relates to impairment of each phase of the infancy-childhood-puberty model of growth, 1 and it results in a mean untreated final height approximately 21 cm below that of the unaffected female population. 2 The mainstay of treatment for short stature is recombinant growth hormone, available since 1985 and licensed for use in Turner's syndrome.
Final, however, means final.
