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...graduate from high school on time as their siblings. But he and Neil Bennett of the Baruch School of Public Affairs know that it happens, having parsed reams of University of Michigan data on families going back to 1968, and came up with the longest view yet of how underweight babies (5.5 pounds or less) turn...
...underweight babies, --hypertension...
...expectant mothers don't have enough to worry about. Now two studies show a curious link between snoring and high blood pressure. One found that snoring moms-to-be are more than twice as likely to have elevated blood pressure--and three times as likely to give birth to underweight infants. Another shows that when nighttime breathing problems are corrected with a mechanical device, elevated blood-pressure levels fall...
...Being too fat--or too thin--can be a risk for ARTHRITIS. Obese men raise their chances of developing arthritis by 70%; underweight men by 40%. Very thin women face no greater than normal risk, but heavy ones appear 50% more likely to get it. Sources--GOOD NEWS: New England Journal of Medicine; Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research; American Diabetes Association BAD NEWS: Pediatrics; UNICEF; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
According to a source familiar with HMC, one area that hurt the endowment's return was that it was "underweight in technology"--an area which saw a return of about 90 percent--meaning the company did not have enough of its assets invested in technology...