According to a survey, many parents do not know that “dwarfism is a disease” in children with short stature. Modern medicine has proved in long-term clinical research that genetics only accounts for one-third of the factors determining height, and that short stature is essentially a treatable disease that must be taken seriously by parents. Why are many children’s height unintentionally delayed by their parents? The survey found that 97% of parents of children with short stature recognized their child’s short height, but only 1.6% of parents realized that it might be caused by some disease. The percentage of parents who do not know enough about the disease and lack basic knowledge is 41.9%. Nearly half of the parents interviewed attributed their children’s short stature to “late development” and “picky eating”. They took measures such as increasing nutrition, physical exercise, vitamin tablets and height-enhancing supplements, etc. Even more than 20% of parents did not take any measures to deal with their children’s short stature. Most parents do not think it is necessary to take their children to the hospital for examination to determine the cause of their short height. Short stature is a disease whose main cause is the lack of growth hormone in the body. Professor Wang Mudi, an authoritative expert in the field of pediatric endocrinology, pointed out in an article that genetics only accounts for one-third of the factors that determine height, and environmental conditions account for two-thirds. In terms of current medical technology, short stature caused by genetic factors can be treated if interventions are taken at the right time. The first disease that affects height is short stature caused by growth hormone deficiency or insufficient secretion. If this type of disease is not treated early, the child’s final height as an adult may only be about 1.30 meters, i.e., dwarfism. The next diseases are precocious puberty, hypothyroidism, abnormal adrenocortical function, idiopathic dwarfism, as well as children younger than fetal age and abnormal bone development.