Relationship between Birth Order and Postnatal Growth until 4 Years of Age: The Japan Environment and Children's Study

• Main Authors: Aya Yoshida (Author), Kayo Kaneko (Author), Kohei Aoyama (Author), Naoya Yamaguchi (Author), Atsushi Suzuki (Author), Sayaka Kato (Author), Takeshi Ebara (Author), Mayumi Sugiura-Ogasawara (Author), Michihiro Kamijima (Author), Shinji Saitoh (Author), the Japan Environment and Children's Study Group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Later-borns tend to be shorter than first-borns in childhood and adulthood. However, large-scale prospective studies examining growth during infancy according to birth order are limited. We aimed to investigate the relationship between birth order and growth during the first 4 years of life in a Jap...