Abstract
Birth weight is a powerful predictor of infant survival and is associated with morbidity, childhood growth, and adult height. Recently it has been argued that intrauterine conditions, represented by birth weight, have long term effects on adult conditions such as ischaemic heart disease and non-insulin dependent diabetes.1 thus national trends in this health indicator are of great interest. In Scotland birth weight is reported on Scottish Maternity Records (SMR2) and collated by the Scottish Health Service Common Services Agency. The agency provided information on birth weights of liveborn infants since 1975. For England and Wales, routinely collected data on live births were obtained from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys since 1983, when records were considered to be complete.2 The table shows an increasing percentage of heavier birth weights; regression of …
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