Table 1

Mean height loss of 53 children over three two hour time intervals, together with the accumulated six hour loss for unstretched and stretched modes. The SE of each entry is 0.059 cm, for each unstretched decrement, or 0.060 cm, for a mean stretched decrement

PeriodMean height loss (cm)
UnstretchedStretched
0900–11000.310.34
1100–13000.200.23
1300–15000.045−0.019
0900–15000.5550.551