Letter to the editor regarding "spatiotemporal association of low birth weight with Cs-137 deposition at the prefecture level in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accidents".

Sani Rachman Soleman, Tomoko Fujitani, Kouji H Harada

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Article in Environmental health : a global access science source, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Response to the "letter to the editor" by Sani Rachman Soleman et al., "spatiotemporal association of low birth weight with Cs-137 deposition at the prefecture level in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accidents".Environmental health : a global access science source · 2020
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Sani Rachman SolemanDepartment of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Yoshida Konoe, Sakyo, Kyoto, 6068501, Japan.

Tomoko FujitaniDepartment of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Yoshida Konoe, Sakyo, Kyoto, 6068501, Japan.

Kouji H HaradaDepartment of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Yoshida Konoe, Sakyo, Kyoto, 6068501, Japan. kharada-hes@umin.ac.jp.ORCID 0000-0001-7319-123X

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 19H01164

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the previous report, association between increased low birth weight prevalence and radiocesium deposition after 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster was found. However, the statistical analyses therein raised several questions. First, ecological variables are not justified enough to adjust potential confounding. Second, the spatiotemporal regression model does not consider temporal reduction in radiation dose rate. Third, dose-response plot between dose rates and odds ratios overestimates R

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Cesium RadioisotopesFukushima Nuclear AccidentEpidemiologic StudiesHumansInfant, Low Birth WeightInfant, NewbornJapanNuclear Power PlantsCesium-137Cesium RadioisotopesEcological studyEpidemiologyFukushima nuclear disasterLow birth weightRadiationStatistics

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PMID33239011

DOI10.1186/s12940-020-00651-5

PMCPMC7687688

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