Sentence examples for below the reference mean from inspiring English sources

21 Children were classified as underweight if they were less than two standard deviations below the reference mean.

T-scores compare BMD with the mean of a healthy young (age 20 30 years) reference population, matched for sex and race, and were expressed as the number of standard deviations above or below the reference mean.

Overall, in the outpatient population the mean scores for physical functioning and bodily pain improved significantly but were postoperatively still slightly below the reference mean values of the general Finnish population (n=2060) [ 18].

T-scores of ≤−2.5 standard deviations (SD) below the reference mean were classified as osteoporosis; T-scores between −1.0 and −2.5 SD were classified as osteopenia; and T-scores ≥−1.0 SD were classified as normal.

Weight-for-height measures wasting or acute malnutrition and can be expressed as a z-score which is the number of standard deviations or Z-scores below or above the reference mean or median value [ 21].

In terms of the height SD score, individuals were born below the WHO reference (mean: −0.36, 95% CI: −0.47, −0.25) but moved toward the reference mean, reaching −0.12 (95% CI: −0.23, −0.01) at 4 years of age.

BMI was approximately 1 SD below the population reference mean.

SGA is defined as a birth weight and/or birth length greater than 2 standard deviations (SD) below the population reference mean for gestational age.

The mean anti-Xa activity of dosages below the guideline fell below the reference range; mean anti-Xa activity of unadjusted dosages (higher than the guideline) tended to fall above the reference range.

Children whose weight for age is more than 2 standard deviations below the reference population mean are termed underweight.

In our study, we defined "severely impaired" as a total score falling at least one standard deviation below the reference population mean [ 12].