11.   Parents of low birth weight or handicapped children also need to be encouraged to avoid becoming overprotective, and communicating their anxieties to their children.

12.   And more low birth weight babies are surviving, thanks to improvements in intensive care.

13.   Another study of the nurses published in September linked low birth weight to an increased risk of having high blood pressure as an adult.

14.   Are fewer babies born at low birth weight?

15.   Babies born after couples undergo fertility treatments are more likely to have low birth weights and birth defects, researchers reported Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

16.   Babies of very low birth weight make up only a tiny fraction of all newborns.

17.   Black babies continue to be at twice the risk of low birth weight as white babies.

18.   A lack of vitamin A during pregnancy can cause night blindness in the mother, problems with the placenta and low birth weight of newborns.

19.   A number of medical studies have found that there is in fact a link between anxiety during pregnancy and low birth weight.

20.   Child poverty, teen pregnancy and low birth weight, and high school dropout rates are among the worst in the state.