11.   Low birth weight is related to economic deprivation.

12.   Low birth weight usually indicates premature births that are also often immature births.

13.   Most epidemiological studies have not analysed respiratory symptoms in relation to birth weight and gestational age separately.

14.   Premature babies have a low birth weight.

15.   Reduced lung function has been associated with low birth weight regardless of whether the child had respiratory complications at birth.

16.   Several studies revealed conditions that affect prematurity and birth weight.

17.   So far only one report has used information for both birth weight and gestational age as independent variables in the analysis.

18.   The degree of glucose intolerance for any given birth weight was influenced independently by body mass index in adulthood.

19.   The inclusion of birth weight as one of the enrolment characteristics is probably inappropriate.

20.   The non-insulin dependent diabetic subjects had similar birth weight to subjects with normoglycaemia or impaired glucose tolerance.