{"id":218645,"date":"2010-01-22T09:02:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=35504"},"modified":"2010-01-22T09:02:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:02:37","slug":"u-s-newborns-are-weighing-less-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218645","title":{"rendered":"U.S. newborns are weighing less, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birth weights in the United States are on the decline, a study has found. The report, released Thursday, found a small but significant decrease in average birth weights from 1990 to 2005, for reasons that scientists say are unclear\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were startled by the findings,&#8221; said senior author Dr. Emily Oken, assistant professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School. &#8220;We tried really hard to explain it away, but we were unable to\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/health\/la-sci-birth-weight22-2010jan22,0,3045797.story\">Read more here<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birth weights in the United States are on the decline, a study has found. The report, released Thursday, found a small but significant decrease in average birth weights from 1990 to 2005, for reasons that scientists say are unclear\u2026 &#8220;We were startled by the findings,&#8221; said senior author Dr. Emily Oken, assistant professor of population [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}