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A member asked:
If born premature does it make you shorter than if you were born the time you were supposed to be born?
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No: Height is genetically determined. Certainy nutrition plays a role. Also depends on your parents/grand parents height, Use of Steroids in your childhood and how early you had Puberty. you may continue to grow until 21 years of age.
Answered 7/11/2014
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