21.   This was the sample used for the analysis of birth weight, gestational age, and respiratory symptoms.

22.   Twins and triplets are expected to have lower birth weights than single infants.

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

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

25.   Are fewer babies born at low birth weight?

26.   Any multiple birth dramatically increases the incidence of life-threatening and costly prematurity, low birth weight and congenital defects that may not be treatable.

27.   As an example, she cites research that links higher birth weights to increased intelligence.

28.   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.

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

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