A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
5.High-altitude babies have heads that are larger than their bodies.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
6.High-altitude babies have longer but thinner limbs than average.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
7.Giussani has arrived at the conclusion that babies in high-altitude regions are more likely to have heart trouble when they grow up.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
Dangers Await Babies with Altitude
Women who live in the world’s highest communities tend to give birth to under-weight babies, a new study suggests. These babies may grow into adults with a high risk of heart disease and strokes.1
Research has hinted that newborns in mountain communities are lighter than average. But it wasn’t clear whether this is due to reduced oxygen levels at high altitude or because their mothers are under-nourished — many people who live at high altitudes are relatively poor compared with those living lower down.
To find out more, Dino Giussani and his team at Cambridge University studied the records of 400 births in Bolivia during 1997 and 1998. The babies were bom in both rich and poor areas of two cities: La Paz and Santa Cruz. La Paz is the highest city in the world, at 3.65 kilometers above sea level, while Santa Cruz is much lower, at 0.44 kilometers.