Twenty-Year Trends of Low Birth Weight in Japan: A Joinpoint Regression Analysis of Data From 2000 to 2019

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Journal Front Reprod Health

Date 2022 Oct 28

PMID 36303964

Authors

Tomosa Mine

Satoshi Tsuboi

Fujiko Fukushima

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