His team also found that high-altitude babies tended to have relatively larger heads compared with their bodies. This is probably because a fetus starved of oxygen will send oxygenated blood to the brain in preference to rest of the body.
% t9 j% [* J; D" F8 l" \& F Giussani wants to find out if such babies have a higher risk of disease in later life. People born in La Paz might be prone to heart trouble in adulthood, for example, low birthweight is a risk factor for coronary heart disease. And newborns with a high ratio of head size to body weight are often predisposed to high blood pressure and strokes in later life.
F* }5 u5 j% S 1.According to the passage, one of the reasons why newborns in mountain communities are underweight is that their mothers are underweight. ; X, j$ [- S1 x1 o* l+ C
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2.Giussani’s team members are all British researchers and professors from Cambridge University.
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3.Giussani did not expect to find that the weight of a baby had little to do with the financialconditions of the family he was born into. 1 M) G, E% v/ |7 d# u
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5 J. z) b3 O% r3 B/ t 4.The weight of a new born has to do with the supply of oxygen even when he was still in his mother’s womb. 7 }9 ?+ [2 N9 T
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, G; K0 g# q. J9 V6 y 5. High-altitude babies have heads that are larger than their bodies. - l& I) d- @4 n: ~
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9 l9 [4 }, j( j4 U; @& | 6.High-altitude babies have longer but thinner limbs than average.
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& P/ a3 P7 V' x _/ t/ x# E 7.Giussani has arrived at the conclusion that babies in high-altitude regions are more likely to have heart trouble when they grow up.
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