Sentence examples for median weight height from inspiring English sources

Table 1 provides the mean and the median weight, height or length, and age for children entering the program.

There were no significant differences in median weight, height, or BMI values by race (Table 1).

The recommended daily energy intake for our study participants (based on being sedentary with a median weight, height, and age) was 2310 kcal for men and 1755 kcal for women [ 36].

A z score of -1 indicates that the child's weight or height is 1 standard deviation (SD) below the median weight or height for the reference population.

For the past 20 years in Hong Kong, childhood obesity has been defined as a body weight of over 120 % of the median weight for height according to the local reference (1993 HK reference) [ 14], where reference values for height are available only for up to 175 cm in boys and 165 cm in girls.

Childhood obesity in this survey was defined as weight > median weight for height × 120%.

Wasting - Moderate and severe - below minus two standard deviations from median weight for height of reference population.

Severe acute malnutrition, SAM (-3 standard deviations or less from the median weight for height) affects 0.9%3.2%% of children.

The present study also used the 1993 HK reference (i.e., childhood obesity is defined as having a body weight of over 120 % of the median weight for height in the 1993 growth curve) to define childhood obesity [ 14].

It is important to note, however, that the means by which the HBW was calculated in these studies varied, although authors typically did so using the median weight for height and/or age as the reference point for calculation.

Most of our cohort had mild to moderate undernutrition, with the median weight for height or length z-score (WHZ-score) -1.5 [IQR (-2.4, -0.65)], which may explain why fasting was associated with early hypoglycaemia (within the four hours period of the event) and at variance with the studies in Surinamese children, whose median WHZ-score was 0.6 [ 32].