University of Warwick study links birth size to teen school performance

Babies who are smaller than expected at birth tend to have poorer school performance as teenagers - Business News Week

Oct 22: Warwick researchers followed more than 92,000 children from infancy to adolescence to explore how their size at birth was associated with early development, and later performance in national school tests. The large study found that children who were smaller than expected at birth – meaning that they weighed less than most babies of […] The post Babies who are smaller than expected at birth tend to have poorer school performance as teenag…

University of Warwick study links birth size to teen school performance

National, October 22, 2026: Researchers from the University of Warwick have found that babies who are smaller than expected at birth tend to have lower academic performance as teenagers, according to a study tracking over 92,000 children from infancy through adolescence. The study, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, followed 92,551 children […]