Relationship between ultrasound-measured spleen, liver and anthropometry of children living in a rural community in southwest Nigeria: a cross-sectional study.

Autor: Fatunla OAT; Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Afe Babalola University, Afe Babalola Way, Opposite the Federal Polytechnic, 360231, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. odunayofatunla@yahoo.ca., Olatunya OS; Department of Paediatrics, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria., Ogundare EO; Department of Paediatrics, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria., Fatunla TO; Department of Family Medicine, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria., Olatayo AS; Department of Family Medicine, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria., Taiwo AB; Department of Paediatrics, Zankli Medical Centre, Abuja, Nigeria., Ipinnimo TM; Department of Community Medicine, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, Nigeria., Oyebanji AH; Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Afe Babalola University, Afe Babalola Way, Opposite the Federal Polytechnic, 360231, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria., Akanbi GO; Department of Radiology, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria., Oyelami OA; Department of Paediatrics, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Pediatric radiology [Pediatr Radiol] 2022 Jul; Vol. 52 (8), pp. 1484-1491. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Mar 19.
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-022-05341-7
Abstrakt: Background: Ultrasonography is noninvasive, relatively inexpensive and useful for resource-poor settings. US spleen and liver sizes have been observed to differ among populations, so there is a need for reference values for different geographic populations.
Objective: To describe the sizes of the spleen and liver of children living in a rural community in southwest Nigeria and assess the relationship between these measurements and the children's anthropometry.
Materials and Methods: We conducted a community-based cross-sectional study among 358 apparently healthy children ages 1-14 years. We obtained the participants' weights, heights, body mass index and body surface area. They underwent US imaging to obtain longitudinal measurements of their spleen and liver. We used independent t-test to compare means, and linear regression analysis to assess relationships between continuous data. The significance level was set as P < 0.05.
Results: There were more girls (181; 50.6%). Most children were ages 1-5 years (172; 48.0%). The body surface area had significantly strong positive relationships with US spleen size (r = 0.769; R 2  = 0.592; P < 0.0001) and US liver size (r = 0.819; R 2  = 0.671; P < 0.0001) but body mass index had weak positive relationships.
Conclusion: This study contributes to data on US spleen and liver sizes of Nigerian children. The findings buttress observations that body surface area strongly correlates with US spleen and liver measurements. It is recommended that more studies be conducted among Nigerian children to generate a robust pool of data that are useful for creating homogeneous formulae to ease interpretation of US measurements of these intraabdominal organs.
(© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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