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Article: Smaller babies `worseat exams'.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- March 25, 2003
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Byline: Suzanne Elsworth
BABIES born severely underweight perform worse in their GCSEs than their counterparts born at normal weights, according to researchers from Liverpool University.
Experts from the department of public health have followed the children's progress almost from birth, testing their IQs aged eight and assessing their GCSE grades at 16.
The study looked at 167 children of very low birth weight and 1. ..of normal birth weight who attended the same schools in Merseyside. The comparison groups were the same sex and the same age to within two weeks, and came from the same social backgrounds. Their parents' employment, income and ...