The phrase "a weight deficit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to health, fitness, or economics, referring to a situation where there is a lack of weight or a shortfall in weight compared to a desired or expected amount.
Example: "To achieve his fitness goals, he needed to create a weight deficit through a combination of diet and exercise."
Alternatives: "a weight shortfall" or "a weight imbalance."
If Marvis is to win, his father will have to teach him to overcome a 25-pound weight deficit.
On average the participants gained three and five kg over the two and five months treatment period, respectively, but participants with diabetes had a one kg weight deficit compared to the non-diabetes patients at both time points.
We have previously demonstrated a 10 kg weight deficit among newly diagnosed TB patients compared to non-TB individuals [ 7], thus the regain of lean and fat mass is an important part of TB recovery, since rapid build-up of fat mass may lead to metabolic syndrome [ 8].
d) POBW is a continuous scale that correlates with weight deficit, whereas percentile position is an ordinal scale that does not.
She recouped her weight deficit in a handful of years.
Brain damage was evaluated by weight deficit of the right hemisphere at 22 days following hypoxia.
To determine the relation between weight deficit at birth and IGF-I, IGFBP-I, Leptin, and AFP levels in amniotic fluid after 14 18 weeks; to assess the diagnostic usefulness of these biochemical markers.
Noteworthy, although body weight deficit was not corrected and improved muscle structure and muscle force did not reach WT level, the lifespan of tamoxifen-treated Mtm1−/y mice was extended by 6.4-fold (45 days median survival of untreated KO vs 290 days) on high dose tamoxifen.
Previous studies have attributed fetal susceptibility to alcohol-induced weight deficit to maternal genotype effects only [8], [9].
Thus, the heightened vulnerability of the BN/SD strain to fetal weight deficit could result from alcohol-induced alterations of epigenetic marks at imprinted loci.
