Saturday, November 19, 2011

Tough Economy Takes a Surprising Toll on Babies

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Tough Economy Takes a Surprising Toll on Babies A rocky economy could adversely affect newborns, according to new research from the University of California at Berkeley published in the November issue of the journal Epidemiology.

Researchers found that if the economy was a worse than expected in the state where mothers resided during the first trimester of their pregnancies, their babies averaged 3.7% smaller compared to others of the same gestational age. The study looked at a sample of more than 6,700 U.S. births between 1982 and 2000,...

Tough Economy Takes a Surprising Toll on Babies originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2011-11-18T14:30:00Z.

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