| dc.description | Acknowledgments The authors thank the JECS participants and the JECS Group as well as Nagamasa Maeda, Mikiya Fujieda, Naomi Mitsuda, and Atsuko Mori of the Kochi Regional Centre of the JECS and Sifa Marie Joelle Muchanga of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine. The members of the JECS Group as of 2022 are as follows: Michihiro Kamijima (principal investigator, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan, jecs-en@nies.go.jp), Shin Yamazaki (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan), Yukihiro Ohya (National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan), Reiko Kishi (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan), Nobuo Yaegashi (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), Koichi Hashimoto (Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan), Chisato Mori (Chiba University, Chiba, Japan), Shuichi Ito (Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan), Zentaro Yamagata (Universit y of Yamanashi, Chuo, Japan), Hidekuni Inadera (University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan), Takeo Nakayama (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan), Tomotaka Sobue (Osaka University, Suita, Japan), Masayuki Shima (Hyogo Medical University, Nishinomiya, Japan), Hiroshige Nakamura(Tottori University, Yonago, Japan), Narufumi Suganuma (Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan), Koichi Kusuhara (University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan), and Takahiko Katoh (Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan). Funding: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) is funded by the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) of Japan, including data collection. The present study utilized part of the JECS data. However, for this particular study “Pre-/perinatal reduced optimality and neurodevelopment at 1 month and 3 years of age – Results from the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS)”, the funder had no role in study design, analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. | en |
