Birth weight tells about the future of a child
Scientists from Michigan University have conducted a research and came to an amazing conclusion - the future of the person directly depends on his birth weight.
Experts found out, that the low-birth-weight infants (less than 5.51 lbs), have 30 % less chances in the childhood to have good or excellent health. In most cases this problem even is aggravated eventually - chances for bad health at a mature age for them increase by 70 %. And as result, state of health of such people by 30-40 years corresponds to a state of normal ones (those who had normal birth weight) which are 12 years elder.
Scientists add that such children in junior school make worse progress in mathematics, reading and other basic subjects. Such children have also lower chances to graduate from a school.
Scientists explain this paradox in the fallowing way: low-birth-weight infants come into the world more often in poor families. This has its impact not only on health of the child, but also on quality of its meal, education and development.