<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 13.15pt .0001pt 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Severe malnutrition and linear growth retardation during early childhood were prevalent in developing countries. Objectives </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">of this study was t</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">o study adolescent characteristics with the severe malnutrition and linear growth disorder history in early age. A followed-up study were caried out among 93 adolescents aged 10-17 years in Bogor. Subjects admitted to Nutrition Clinic Bogor at the age of below three years, suffered from severe malnutrition as well as stunted at first enrollment. Data collected including weight and height, socio economic status, parent’s weight and height, subject’s characteristicts and secondary data at first enrollment to the clinic from medical records including weight, height, diagnozed, parent’s characteristics. As many as<strong> </strong>36.6% subjects were categorized as normal base on height for age (HFA), higher among males (45.3%) than females (32.3%). Higher proportion of normal HFA adolescent were found on farmer or driver father, house keeper mother and mother with junior high school education background. There was no relationship between aged at first enrollment to nutrition clinic as well as puberty status with HFA during adolescent. </span><span class="hps"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">As many as</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <span class="hps">52% of</span> adolescents <span class="hps">achieve</span> <span class="hps">normal</span> HFA whose mother’s height &gt; <span class="hps">150</span> <span class="hps">cm</span>, in the opposite <span class="hps">73.8</span>% <span class="hps">of stunted</span> <span class="hps">teenage</span> with mother’s height <span class="hps">&lt;</span>150 <span class="hps">cm</span>. <span class="hps">There is a</span> <span class="hps">linkage</span> <span class="hps">achieving</span> <span class="hps">linear</span> <span class="hps">growth</span> among adolescent <span class="hps">experienced</span> severe malnutrition and linear <span class="hps">growth</span> <span class="hps">disorders</span> during early childhood <span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">parental</span> <span class="hps">employment</span>, <span class="hps">maternal</span> <span class="hps">education</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">maternal</span> height.</span></p>