Short term increase in low birth weight babies after Fukushima

An analysis of low birth weight (LBW) births in ten contaminated prefectures of Japan, 1995–2018, finds a statistically significant increase in the LBW proportion in 2012–2013, but no increase after 2013. In the rest of Japan (37 prefectures), no increase in LBW births was found after the Fukushima...

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Autor principal: Körblein, Alfred
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7687704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33239016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-020-00650-6
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spelling pubmed-76877042020-11-30 Short term increase in low birth weight babies after Fukushima Körblein, Alfred Environ Health Letter to the Editor An analysis of low birth weight (LBW) births in ten contaminated prefectures of Japan, 1995–2018, finds a statistically significant increase in the LBW proportion in 2012–2013, but no increase after 2013. In the rest of Japan (37 prefectures), no increase in LBW births was found after the Fukushima accident. BioMed Central 2020-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7687704/ /pubmed/33239016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-020-00650-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7687704/
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