scholarly journals “A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CALF CIRCUMFERENCE WITH OTHER ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS TO MEASURE LOW BIRTH WEIGHT BABIES AT RISK” – A HOSPITAL BASED STUDY.

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 1958-1965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Kumar P ◽  
Sudarshan K.P ◽  
Vatsala Kumari
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Anthropometric Measurements ◽  
Calf Circumference ◽  
Low Birth Weight Babies

scholarly journals Correlation of birth weight with other anthropometric variables in detection of low birth weight (LBW) babies

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reema Afroza Alia ◽  
MA Mannan ◽  
Kanij Fatema ◽  
Fahmida Begum ◽  
Russel Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Calf Circumference ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Low Birth Weight Babies ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
Correlation Tests ◽  
Level Of Significance

Objective: To assess the correlation of birth weight with other anthropometric variables and their appropriateness in prediction and detection of low birth weight babies. Methodology: It was a hospital-based cross-sectional observational study, conducted over 100 newborn babies within 24 hours of their birth. Birth weight and other anthropometric variables were recorded and analyzed with statistical package for social science (SPSS-17) and Student’s t-test, Chi-squared (?2), ANOVA and Pearson correlation tests were done to test the hypothesis and level of significance was set as p <0.05. Result: All the anthropometric variables were well correlated with birth-weight, irrespective of gestational age (p<0.01). The highest correlation was found with chest circumference (r = 0.962), while the lowest correlation was observed with calf circumference (r 0.923). Conclusion: All anthropometric variables except calf circumference can be considered as appropriate indicators for identifying neonates require special attention and intervention for low birth weight (LBW) where weighing machine or facilities for ultrasonography is not readily available. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jdnmch.v17i1.12189 J. Dhaka National Med. Coll. Hos. 2011; 17 (01): 29-32

Antibacterial chemotherapy in the newborn

1981 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-16
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Bacterial Infection ◽  
In Utero ◽  
Risk Of Infection ◽  
Maternal Infection ◽  
Low Birth Weight Babies ◽  
Antibacterial Chemotherapy ◽  
Special Risk

The newborn is immunologically immature and at risk of infection. Bacterial infection is usually acquired during or soon after birth, rather than in utero. Preterm and low-birth-weight babies are at special risk; prolonged rupture of the membranes, maternal infection, and difficulties in delivery all increase the risk of infection.

scholarly journals IDENTIFYING LOW BIRTH WEIGHT BABIES USING CALF CIRCUMFERENCE AMONG NEONATES IN A SEMI-URBAN AREA

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-94
Author(s):  
Sathyamoorthy Mani . ◽  
Karthikeyan Panneerselvam . ◽  
Sekar Pasupathy . ◽  
Sushmitha Goli . ◽  
Balaji Ramraj . ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Calf Circumference ◽  
Low Birth Weight Babies

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

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 2098
Author(s):  
Jyothi S. D. ◽  
Raghavendra Doddamani
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Anthropometric Measurements ◽  
Upper Arm ◽  
Thigh Circumference ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Arm Circumference ◽  
Low Birth Weight Babies ◽  
Mid Upper Arm Circumference

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.

scholarly journals Calf circumference to detect low birth weight babies: a comparative study

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 2302
Author(s):  
Pradheep Kumar Kokku ◽  
Himabindu Singh ◽  
Rakesh Kotha ◽  
Arjun Jadhavo ◽  
Alimelu Maddireddi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Head Circumference ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Calf Circumference ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Low Birth Weight Babies

Background: In developing countries 15 per cent of infants weigh less than 2,500 grams at birth .It is not possible to provide expensive weighing scales to the community members and families due to logistic (carrying a heavy scale) and operational (inability of Trained Birth Attenders to read) problems. Therefore it is essential to find out an alternative method for the estimation of birth weight. Almost 60 per cent of newborns in developing countries are not weighed. Which can lead to an underestimation of the incidence of low birth weight. That’s why  we done  present study  to know the simple indicators to detect low birth weight babies. Aim of this study to compare calf circumference with other Low birth weight indicators as a reliable predictor of low birth weight babies.Methods: It is a cross-sectional study done during period 2018 January to 2018 October done at Niloufer Hospital Hyderabad. Statistical analysis is done using SPSS (version 17) statistical software. For comparison Pearson's Correlation coefficients used.Results: The best correlation was observed with both calf circumference (r=0.818) and head circumference (r=0.744) for identifying babies with birth weight <2 kg. For babies with birth weight <2.5 kg, calf circumference had the highest order of correlation (r = 0.986) followed closely by head circumference (r=0.886).Conclusion: In the absence of a weighing machine, simple measurements like calf circumference is the best indicator in identifying low birth weight babies (<2.5kg) at birth.

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