A 17-year-old female asked:
hi i'm 17 years old and i am 5'8. my mom is 5'9 and my dad is 6'4. do you think i will grow? i would want to grow maybe 1 or 2 more inches. thank you!
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Dr. Clarence Grim answered
57 years experience Endocrinology
Will I grow taller?: You grow till bone fuse. Best way to predict is to draw an X-y plot of your height curve-time is X HT is y . When stops increasing & levels off year u peaked. Ht is very strongly genetic . So do height family tree and average all as far back as you can and should this will give u average expected. And u can do 2 std Dev to estimate your Likley height. Also query men as to age of max ht.
Answered on Dec 29, 2015
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Dr. M. Hytham Beck answered
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most likely you could be as tall as your father you already passed your mom it is very hard to predict that
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Dr. Mohammad Shahzad answered
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Height : Most likely you have achieved maximum height
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