LOW BIRTH WEIGHTS IN BLACKS FOUND.(Living Today)

Byline: Associated Press

Middle-class black women with college educations are twice as likely to bear low-birth- weight babies as whites of the same income and education, a study found.

The study of more than 100,000 births in Chicago suggests that the effects of poverty linger for generations, the researchers said Monday.

Low birth weight is the most important predictor of whether babies will die, said the lead researcher, Dr. James W. Collins Jr., who specializes in newborns at Children's Memorial Hospital.

The United States, which ranks 22nd among developed countries in infant survival, is losing its fight to reduce the infant mortality …