| Autor: |
Ververs MT; Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland., Antierens A, Sackl A, Staderini N, Captier V |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
PLoS currents [PLoS Curr] 2013 Jun 07; Vol. 5. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Jun 07. |
| DOI: |
10.1371/currents.dis.54a8b618c1bc031ea140e3f2934599c8 |
| Abstrakt: |
Currently there is no consensus on how to identify pregnant women as acutely malnourished and when to enroll them in nutritional programmes. Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland undertook a literature review with the purpose of determining values of anthropometric indicators for acute malnutrition that are associated with adverse birth outcomes (such as low birth weight (LBW)), pre-term birth and intra-uterine growth retardation (IUGR). A literature search in PUBMED was done covering 1 January 1995 to 12 September 2012 with the key terms maternal anthropometry and pregnancy. The review focused on the humanitarian context. Mid-upper-arm circumference (MUAC) was identified as the preferential indicator of choice because of its relatively strong association with LBW, narrow range of cut-off values, simplicity of measurement (important in humanitarian settings) and it does not require prior knowledge of gestational age. The MUAC values below which most adverse effects were identified were <22 and <23 cm. A conservative cut-off of <23 cm is recommended to include most pregnant women at risk of LBW for their infants in the African and Asian contexts. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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