1.   Alho etal reported that both gestational age and birth weight were independently associated with wheezy bronchitis.

2.   Barker etal also failed to find a significant association between birth weight and wheeze.

3.   Barker etal reported that low birth weight was associated with lower adult lung function but not with symptoms of wheeze.

4.   Birth weight and gestational age were included as continuous variables.

5.   Cardiovascular death rates fell progressively with increasing birth weight.

6.   Children with missing values for gestational age or birth weight were excluded from the analysis.

7.   Expected values of birth weight for gestational age were obtained by regressing the natural logarithm of birth weight on gestational age.

8.   In a large sample of adolescents low birth weight was associated with increased prevalence of asthma.

9.   In contrast to a previous report, we found no significant inverse relations between birth weight and blood pressure.

10.   Low birth weight is another measure of the well-being of infants and children.