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Parental characteristics can explain why Japanese women give birth to the smallest infants in the United States

BACKGROUND: Whether birthweight differences observed between races are due to modifiable factors remains controversial. In the United States, Asian infants weigh less than white infants and Japanese infants weigh the least. METHODS: Using US natality data, we evaluated 4,132,319 singleton term live...

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Published in:Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol
Main Authors: Morisaki, Naho, Kawachi, Ichiro, Oken, Emily, Fujiwara, Takeo
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4970883/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27240939
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12308
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