Abstract

The importance of low birth weight for survival and development and its relationships to gestation period, parity, maternal age, race, social class, nutrition, height and physique, smoking, and many other factors are the subject of continuing research, the goal being prevention of death and damage in early life (Butler and Alberman, 1969; Shapiro, Schlesinger, and Nesbitt, 1968; Abramovicz and Kass, 1966; Rantakallio, 1969).

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