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9/15/2008

A study, involving almost 53,000 U.S. children born in the 1960s, found that those whose mothers smoked during pregnancy were at higher risk of low birthweight -- a link that studies have long noted. There was also evidence, that these children were more likely than children of non-smoking women to be overweight by age 7. Low-birthweight infants are more likely to have medical problems shortly after birth, and some studies have linked low birthweight to a higher risk of certain health conditions later in life, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.