Medical Hypotheses
Volume 67, Issue 5 , Pages 1023-1026, 2006

Increasing trend of spina bifida and decreasing birth weight in relation to declining body-mass index of young women in Japan

  • Hidemi Takimoto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Promotion and Research, Section of Maternal and Child Health, National Institute of Public Health, Wako, Saitama 351-0197, Japan
    • ,
  • Tsunenobu Tamura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition Sciences, 455 Webb Bldg., 1675 University Blvd., University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-3360, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 205 934 7478; fax: +1 205 934 7049.

Received 25 April 2006; accepted 28 April 2006. published online 11 July 2006.

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PII: S0306-9877(06)00323-9

doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2006.04.051

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 67, Issue 5 , Pages 1023-1026, 2006

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