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ArticleEnvironmental health : a global access science source2020

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".

Hagen Scherb, Keiji Hayashi

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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. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Hagen ScherbHelmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Computational Biology, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, D-85764, Neuherberg, Germany. hagen.scherb@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-2730-5619
Keiji HayashiHayashi Children's Clinic, 4-6-11-1F Nagata, Joto-ku Osaka-Shi, Osaka, 536-0022, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We thank Sani Rachman Soleman et al. for three specific points of criticism concerning our investigation of the ecological association between low birth weight (LBW) and radioactive contamination in Japan after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accidents: 1. Ecological variables are not justified enough to adjust potential confounding. 2. The spatiotemporal regression model does not consider temporal reduction in radiation dose rate. 3. Dose-response plot between dose rates and odds ratios overestimates R

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Fukushima Nuclear AccidentRadiation MonitoringCesium RadioisotopesEpidemiologic StudiesHumansInfant, Low Birth WeightInfant, NewbornJapanNuclear Power PlantsCesium-137Cesium RadioisotopesEcological confoundingRadiation-induced genetic effectsRestricted and weighted ordinary regressionTemporal pattern of effects

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PMID33239051
PMCPMC7687987

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