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Retraction Note: Fluoride exposure and intelligence in school-age children: evidence from different windows of exposure susceptibility

BMC Public Health volume 22, Article number: 2044 (2022) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 04 November 2020

Retraction Note: BMC Public Health 20, 1657 (2020)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09765-4

The Editor has retracted this article. After publication, concerns were raised regarding the data analysis and conclusions in the paper. The authors have provided raw data, and post-publication review found inconsistencies in methodology and major misinterpretation of the primary result. None of the authors agree to this retraction.

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  1. Kaihong Xu and Ning An contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, China

    Kaihong Xu, Ning An, Hui Huang, Jizhe Ding, Jingyuan Zhu, Zhiyuan Li, Xuemin Cheng & Yue Ba

  2. Environment and Health Innovation Team, School of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, China

    Kaihong Xu, Hui Huang, Xuemin Cheng, Guoyu Zhou & Yue Ba

  3. Department of Medical Services, Zhengzhou Central Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, China

    Leizhen Duan

  4. Department of Endemic Disease, Kaifeng Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kaifeng, 475000, Henan, China

    Jun Ma

  5. The Medical Section, The Eighth People Hospital of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou, 450000, Henan, China

    Tongkun He

  6. Yellow River Institute for Ecological Protection & Regional Coordinated Development, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, China

    Guoyu Zhou & Yue Ba

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Xu, K., An, N., Huang, H. et al. Retraction Note: Fluoride exposure and intelligence in school-age children: evidence from different windows of exposure susceptibility. BMC Public Health 22, 2044 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14470-5

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