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

摘要

Low birth weight (LBW) proportion in the 5 highly contaminated prefectures Fukushima, Miyagi, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Iwate 2004 to 2018; two variants of logistic regression models allowing for a change-point from 2012 onward; (1) black line: simple jump in 2012 OR 1.039, (1.021, 1.057), p-value < 0.0001; (2) gray line: jump 2012 OR 1.059, (1.029, 1.091), p-value < 0.0001, interaction of jump with time OR 0.995, (0.989, 1.001), p-value 0.1075