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Babies May Be Getting Bigger, but Questions Remain
from Reuters Health
The weights and lengths of
babies born in southwestern Ohio
have been growing in recent
decades, a new study found, but no
link to obesity later in childhood
was seen.
The new research, published in
the Journal of Pediatrics,
used data going back to 1929 to
track babies' sizes at birth and
beyond, and found that those born
after 1970 were about one pound
heavier and over half an inch
longer than babies born in earlier
decades.
"What would have been considered
a big kid in the 1930s would not
have been considered a big kid
today," said Ellen Demerath, one of
the study's authors and an
associate professor in the
University of Minnesota School of
Public Health's Division of
Epidemiology and Community
Health.
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