first asian parenting techniques seem so extreme and asian success seems so pronounced that most people find it counterintuitive to deny causation second and more importantly twin and adoption researchers have largely neglected asian populationsirst asian parenting techniques seem so extreme and asian success seems so pronounced that most people find it counterintuitive to deny causation second and more importantly twin and adoption researchers have largely neglected asian populations
Failure to thrive is weight consistently below the 3rd to 5th percentile for age and sex, progressive decrease in weight to below the 3rd to 5th percentile, or a decrease in the percentile rank of 2 major growth parameters in a short period. The cause may be an identified medical condition or may be related to environmental factors.
The University of California, San Diego Medical Center, for example, defines a treatment as futile when it has no realistic chance of providing a benefit that the patient would ever have the capacity to perceive and appreciate, such as merely preserving the physiologic functions of a permanently unconscious patient, or has no realistic chance of achieving the medical goal of returning the patient to a level of health that permits survival outside the acute care setting.