Neonatal mid upper arm circumference as surrogate of birth weight

Autor:	Ravi Ambey, Ajay Gaur, Ankit Agrawal
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Obstetrics Birth weight Mid upper arm circumference Medicine business
Zdroj:	International Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics. 7:491
ISSN:	2349-3291 2349-3283
DOI:	10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20200490
Popis:	Background: Recording an accurate birth weight by primary health worker has been a problem in rural areas, leading to search for an alternative, inexpensive, age independent and noninvasive method to predict newborn birth weight and wellbeing. With this background I aimed to found out whether the neonatal-MUAC is associated with birth weight or not?Methods: This hospital based prospective observational study was conducted in SNCU and postnatal ward, Kamla Raja Hospital, G.R. Medical College, and Gwalior (M.P). A total of 1303 newborns were included in the study. The Mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) of newborns were taken and Birth weight recorded were filled in a proforma.Results: Total 1303 neonates were evaluated. The mean MUAC and birth weight in preterm was found to be 1854.80±387.3 and 7.47±0.9 as compared to full term newborn having mean birth weight(2818.95±328.1) and mean MUAC (9.58+0.7).The Pearson coefficient of correlation between neonatal MUAC (N-MUAC) and birth weight was found to be r= 0.987 and p
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