Author's response to reviews Title: Adverse birth outcomes among native-born and foreign-born mothers in Taiwan: A population-based birth cohort study Authors:
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Author's response to reviews Title: Adverse birth outcomes among native-born, China-born, and Southeast Asia-born mothers in Taiwan: A population-based birth cohort study Authors:
1. Methods need to be more clearly described. At present the description of study outcomes is unclear, and the statistical analysis is not provided. Explanations on the study outcomes and the statistical analysis were added to the method section of the abstract. It has been revised as the following, “health outcome variables examined included two adverse birth outcomes: low birthweight and pret...
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