Association of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Daiichi Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima City, Japan, With Birth Rates.

ABSTRACT: Importance:The association of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster of March 11 and 12, 2011, in Fukushima, Japan, with birth rates has not been examined appropriately in the existing literature. Objective:To assess the midterm and long-term associations of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster with birth rates. Design, Setting, and Participants:Cohort study in which interrupted time series analyses were used to assess monthly changes in birth rates among residents of Fukushima City, Japan, from March 1, 2011, to December 31, 2017, relative to projected birth rates without the disaster based on predisaster trends. Birth rates from January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2017, in Fukushima

SUBMITTER: Kurita N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6484541 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature