What does WH stand for?

Weight For Height

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The authors, led by Dr Helen Sweeting of Glasgow University, said their findings ``highlight the fine line that both media and health promotion messages about an appropriate weight for height need to tread among this particularly vulnerable age group.

One in four of girls diet by 15

Cawley's analysis controlled for weight in alternate ways: weight both in pounds (holding constant height in inches) and body mass index, a measure of weight for height that is the standard measure of fatness in medicine and epidemiology.

Overweight white working women make less money. (Brief Reports: ...

The thinnest 20 percent of women in this study actually weighed 5 percent below the desirable weight for height and age, and they had the lowest incidence of heart attacks in the entire group.

Thin is still in