Recent trend of the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome in Japan

Pathophysiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 259-261

  Sawaguchi, Toshiko ^a   Namiki, Mizuho ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infant mortality; Japan; Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; JAPAN; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PERINATAL DEATH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

EID: 2442623394     PISSN: 09284680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pathophys.2004.01.019     Document Type: Article

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