Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 9 , Pages 964-966 , September 2005

Is the national nutrition survey in Japan representative of the entire Japanese population?

  • Kota Katanoda, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Health Informatics and Education National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81-3-3203-5722; fax:+81-3-3203-5605.
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  • Hiroshi Nitta, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Kunihiko Hayashi, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Gunma University School of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Yasuhiro Matsumura, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Health Informatics and Education National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan

Received 18 October 2004 ,Accepted 15 February 2005.

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 This work was supported by a Health and Labour Sciences Research Grant for Research on Children and Families from the Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare, Japan.

PII: S0899-9007(05)00160-7

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2005.02.004

Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 9 , Pages 964-966 , September 2005

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