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. / K& ]9 y7 L" j5 Y% e; U
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. 5 O2 n, m1 [, j4 ], i( m. n
1.According to the passage, one of the reasons why newborns in mountain communities are underweight is that their mothers are underweight.
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3 X f# o; r4 { 2.Giussani’s team members are all British researchers and professors from Cambridge University. * f8 N4 g0 f. q' m% A
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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 K \7 V, s, m0 i
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. S! T9 y g8 I3 I3 [ 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. ) w6 V) N' `; }/ M/ t; n
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+ y K" M* x0 l# v- U' _3 O 5. High-altitude babies have heads that are larger than their bodies.
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# U5 K0 P/ Q. c 6.High-altitude babies have longer but thinner limbs than average.
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% @9 T" z, s0 ]2 K 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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