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Birth weight of Chinese babies born in Italy
  1. F Festini,
  2. M F Reali,
  3. G Taccetti,
  4. T Repetto,
  5. M de Martino
  1. Cystic Fibrosis Centre of Tuscany, Meyer Hospital, University of Florence, Italy; filippo.festini@iol.it

    https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2003.033332

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      Fok et al1 note that the birth weight (BW) of the Chinese neonates they studied is lower than that of babies born in some western countries and state that a genuine genetic predisposition exists leading to the smaller size of Chinese infants.

      In Tuscany, an Italian region with 3.4 million inhabitants, about 0.5% of the population are immigrants from the People’s Republic of China. Since the early 1990s, Chinese immigrants in Tuscany …

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