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标题：AN INSTITUTIONAL STUDY OF ANTHROPOMETRIC SURROGATES FOR BIRTH WEIGHT
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作者：M Nagargoje ; S S Chaudhary ; J S Deshmukh 等
期刊名称：Indian Journal of Community Health
印刷版ISSN：2248-9509
出版年度：2012
卷号：24
期号：3
页码：215-221
语种：English
出版社：Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand Chapter
摘要：Background: Various anthropometric parameters have been studied so far to find the best possible surrogate of birth weight. Material & Methods: The present study was done among 430 babies with a normal birth weight and 430 babies with a low birth weight born at IGGMC, Nagpur during June 2007 to December 2009. Result: Mean birth weight of all newborns was 2.49 kg (±0.37) while their mean length was 45.62 cms (±3.32), mean head circumference (HC) was 33.79 cms (±1.63), mean mid arm circumference (MAC) was 9.91 cms (±0.96), mean chest circumference (CC) was 31.30 cms (±1.49), mean thigh circumference (TC) was 14.92 cms(±1.53) and mean calf circumference (CaC) was 9.98 cms (±0.88). Highest degree of correlation was found between birth weight & length (r=0.95) followed by HC (r=0.94). The cut off value for identifying LBW was 45.7 cm, 33.8 cm, 9.9 cm, 31.3 cm, 14.9 cm & 10 cm for length, HC, MAC, ChC, TC &CaC respectively. CaC with a cut off value of 10 cm was found to be the best suitable parameter for predicting LBW with 95.58% sensitivity & 92.32% specificity. HC on the other hand, though have a sensitivity of 96.74% for predicting LBW but its specificity of 83.25% was too low to make it best suitable anthropometric surrogate of low birth weight. Conclusion: Calf circumference with 10 cms of cutoff was found to be the most valid anthropometric surrogate for predicting low birth weight.
其他摘要：Background: Various anthropometric parameters have been studied so far to find the best possible surrogate of birth weight. Material & Methods: The present study was done among 430 babies with a normal birth weight and 430 babies with a low birth weight born at IGGMC, Nagpur during June 2007 to December 2009. Result: Mean birth weight of all newborns was 2.49 kg (±0.37) while their mean length was 45.62 cms (±3.32), mean head circumference (HC) was 33.79 cms (±1.63), mean mid arm circumference (MAC) was 9.91 cms (±0.96), mean chest circumference (CC) was 31.30 cms (±1.49), mean thigh circumference (TC) was 14.92 cms(±1.53) and mean calf circumference (CaC) was 9.98 cms (±0.88). Highest degree of correlation was found between birth weight & length (r=0.95) followed by HC (r=0.94). The cut off value for identifying LBW was 45.7 cm, 33.8 cm, 9.9 cm, 31.3 cm, 14.9 cm & 10 cm for length, HC, MAC, ChC, TC &CaC respectively. CaC with a cut off value of 10 cm was found to be the best suitable parameter for predicting LBW with 95.58% sensitivity & 92.32% specificity. HC on the other hand, though have a sensitivity of 96.74% for predicting LBW but its specificity of 83.25% was too low to make it best suitable anthropometric surrogate of low birth weight. Conclusion: Calf circumference with 10 cms of cutoff was found to be the most valid anthropometric surrogate for predicting low birth weight.
关键词：Low birth weight (LBW), Normal birth weight (NBW), Anthropometric surrogates like length, head circumference (HC), mid arm circumference (MAC), chest circumference (CC), thigh circumference (TC), calf circumference (CaC) etc.)