Word: 50th
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...included stylish, raspy celebrations of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Fats Waller. After first playing professionally at the age of 11 as the "Miniature King of Swing," he became a fixture for 36 years at New York's Carlyle Hotel Cafe, where he would have opened its 50th anniversary season...
...authors of the study were particularly interested in monitoring children with a body mass index (BMI) between the 50th and 84th percentile, who, by physicians’ and researchers’ standards, are classified as being in the high end of the normal weight range...
According to the study, girls and boys with BMIs between the 50th and 74th percentiles were five times more likely than their thinner peers—children who had a BMI that fell below the 50th percentile—to become overweight later in life...
...boys and girls with even higher BMIs—between the 75th and 84th percentiles—were up to 20 times more likely than those below the 50th percentile to become overweight at the time of their follow-up appointments...
...results suggest that children above the 50th percentile of BMI for age and gender might benefit from prevention efforts,” she said...