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International Journal of Pediatrics & Neonatal Care Volume 3 (2017), Article ID 3:IJPNC-122, 6 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2455-2364/2017/122
Original Article
Risk Factors for Low Birth Weight Infants in Japanese Pregnancies: A One-year Study of 2551 Cases in Tokyo

Kaori Arima1,2, Yasuyo Kasai2, Mitsuhiro Sugimoto2, Eiji Marui3,4 and Kazuo Minematsu4,5*

1Department of Public Health, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
3Faculty of Human Science, University of Human Arts and Sciences, Saitama, Japan
4Department of Public Health, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
5Department of School Health, Graduate School of Education, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
Prof. Kazuo Minematsu, Department of School Health, Graduate School of Education, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Tel: +81- 95-819-2359; E-mail: minematsu@nagasaki-u.ac.jp
27 February 2017; 28 March 2017; 30 March 2017
Arima K, Kasai Y, Sugimoto M, Marui E, Minematsu K (2017) Risk Factors for Low Birth Weight Infants in Japanese Pregnancies: A One-year Study of 2551 Cases in Tokyo. Int J Pediatr Neonat Care 3: 122. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2455-2364/2017/122
© 2017 Arima et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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