Neonatal screening by chest circumference and a study of relationship between birthweight and other anthropometric parameters

Shastry, C.K. Ramagopal; Bhat, B. Poornima R.

doi:10.7439/ijbr.v6i3.1800

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“…The correlation coefficient of chest circumference to birth weight is significant which is comparable to studies done by Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy et al (r value = 0.553) and Naik DB et al (r value = 0.70) but is less than in studies by Shastry et al (r value = 0.80). 12,19,18 The correlation of chest circumference to gestational age is comparable to studies done by Narendra KS et al with r value of 0.523, Bhatia BD et al (r value = 0.495) and Sharma JN et al (r value 0.649). 16,20,21 But there is paucity of correlation data for separate groups (SGA, AGA and LGA as well as preterm, term and post-term).…”

Section: Correlation Coefficient Of Chest Circumference To Gestational Agesupporting

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Study of correlation between gestational age and new-born foot length and chest circumference

Gupta¹,

Mehrotra²,

Mulye³

2018

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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Background: Globally, in 2015, 1 million children died on first day of their life. The neonatal mortality rate is declining less rapidly than the mortality rate for children between 1month and 5 years of age. Thus, contribution of the neonatal mortality to the under-five deaths is increasing. Usually as average income of a country increases, it leads to decline in child mortality yet some countries in the fast lane for global economic growth such as India have been in the slower lane for child mortality reduction.Methods: This study was conducted at Sri Aurobindo Medical College and PG Institute, Indore from October 2015 to March 2017 for period of 18 months. Total of 800 live new-borns were included in this study by simple random technique. The statistical analysis of data was done using SPSS for Windows (Version 20.0) software. The correlation of gestational age with new-born foot length and new-born chest circumference was analysed by applying correlation and regression analysis.Results: Foot length is significantly correlated with both gestational age and birth weight with p value of < 0.05 and highly positive correlation coefficient. Chest circumference is significantly correlated with both gestational age and birth weight with p value of < 0.05 and highly positive correlation coefficient.Conclusions: This study tried to identify anthropometric parameter (foot length and chest circumference) which allows for rapid evaluation of the infant for gestational age and provide at risk infants with timely care.

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Section: Correlation Coefficient Of Chest Circumference To Gestational Agesupporting

confidence: 86%

Study of correlation between gestational age and new-born foot length and chest circumference

Gupta¹,

Mehrotra²,

Mulye³

2018

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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“…19 Shastry CKR et al, found chest circumference along with mid arm circumference to be the alternate parameters to identify low birth weight babies. 20 Calf circumference was suggested to be the surrogate parameter for early detection of low birth weight babies by Suneetha B et al 21…”

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Anthropometric surrogates to identify low birth weight babies: hospital based cross-sectional study

Jyothi

Doddamani²

2019

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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Background: Birth weight acts as a crucial sensitive and reliable tool to prevent infant and child morbidity and mortality. There has been a considerable interest in recent years for using simple anthropometric measures as an alternative to birth weight. Objective of the study is to determine the cut off values of the anthropometric measurements and to assess the accuracy of the anthropometric surrogates to identify low birth weight babiesMethods: This is a cross sectional study conducted for a period of one year from 1st Dec 2011 to 31st Nov 2012 at Christian fellowship hospital, Oddanchatram, Dindigal, Tamilnadu. Study population included all the live newborns of term gestation at the hospital. A total of 500 newborns were included in the study during the period. Birth weight of the newborn was measured using spring scale to the nearest 25 grams. Head circumference, Chest circumference, Mid Upper Arm Circumference, Foot Length, Thigh circumference, Calf circumference, Crown-hell length were measured using proper guidelines to the nearest 0.1 cm.Results: In the present study, low birth weight was present in 262 (52.4%) of the newborns. Thigh circumference with cut off value of 15 cm had higher sensitivity and specificity of 97.5% and 80.9% respectively. It was followed by Mid upper arm circumference with cut off value of 10 cm, sensitivity of 81.5% and specificity of 93.9%. Thigh circumference and mid upper arm circumference had high area under curve of 0.949 and 0.855 respectively. All the anthropometric measurements were statistically significant at 5% level of significance.Conclusions: Thigh circumference with a cut off of 15 cm, followed by mid upper arm circumference of 10 cm were the better surrogate anthropometric measurements with better sensitivity, specificity to identify low birth weight babies.

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Head Circumference at Birth as a Surrogate Measurement for Identifying Low Birth Weight Newborns

Kusharisupeni¹,

Putra²,

Utari³

et al. 2019

Pakistan J. of Nutrition

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Neonatal screening by chest circumference and a study of relationship between birthweight and other anthropometric parameters

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Study of correlation between gestational age and new-born foot length and chest circumference

Study of correlation between gestational age and new-born foot length and chest circumference

Anthropometric surrogates to identify low birth weight babies: hospital based cross-sectional study

Head Circumference at Birth as a Surrogate Measurement for Identifying Low Birth Weight Newborns

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