Ecological study of mean birth weight and nutritional intake in Japan

Human Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1057-1071

  Furuta, Mizuho ^a   Matsuda, Shinya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Japan; Nutritional intake; Regional differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032401817     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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