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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.
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.
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.
 
 
 
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