Sentence examples for slow height from inspiring English sources

Vertical profiles obtained from ionograms, using true height inversion methods, show the existence of a very broad F layer peak, with a very slow height gradient.

The term idiopathic short stature (ISS) describes children: (a) whose height is more than two standard deviations below the mean; (b) with normal or slow height velocity; (c) of normal birth weight; (d) showing an absence of specific endocrine abnormalities; and (e) having no evidence of chronic physical or psychological illness.

As males do not demonstrate weight-SDS changes, increased BMI reflects slow height-SDS recovery.

A similar general trend of slower height development on cooler sites is apparent in other regions with, for example, the higher elevation forests in the Wanganui-Manawatu region only achieving 44% of their asymptotic height at age 20 years.

Total overstorey basal-area was highest in P. taeda stands and individual overstorey tree growth generally increased with decreasing stand densities, except for slower height growth of G. robusta in more open stands.

The slower height growth of aspen in the northwestern part of the province, i.e., higher longitudes, may be a result of shorter growing season because of the frequent period of cloudiness in the western part of the province [35].

However, the slower height recovery seen in males is consistent with the effects of longer steroid treatment on linear growth.

Being left behind due to parental migration during early childhood, as compared to not being left behind, could lead to slower height growth and weight gain for boys.

As young boys turned into adolescents, those left behind in early childhood tended to have slower height growth and weight gain than their peers from intact households.

This pattern of faster early childhood gains in height followed by subsequent slower height growth and unchanged adult height indicates that obesity risk alleles may confer a more rapid tempo of growth rather than altered long-term height potential.

The use of the life course approach in our study allows us to detect that being left behind in early childhood can lead to slower height growth and weight gain for boys by teenage years.