For some immigrant parents, especially South Asians, questions about a baby’s birthweight may be stressful, because many of their newborns are incorrectly diagnosed as being significantly underweight. But researchers at the University of Toronto and St. Michael’s Hospital, led by Assistant Professor of Medicine Joel Ray, say many of these infants are in fact the correct birthweight for their ethnic group and should not be compared to those of babies of Canadian-born mothers.

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