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Background: Neonatal period is the most vulnerable period of life. For neonates born with a serious medical condition or who need immediate intensive care, determining physical and neurological maturation factors to assess gestational age or anthropometric indices is quite difficult. Therefore, determining the correlation of foot length with anthropometric indices and gestational age according to Ballard score, is a priority in the research. This study describes the foot length, some anthropometric parameters; and study the correlation between foot length and some anthropometric parameters and gestational age of newborn
by new Ballard score.
Methods: A survey was conducted with 240 neonatal in the first 24 hours at The Pediatric Center in Hue Central Hospital and Hue University Hospital of Medicine and Pharmacy from 4/2019 to 1/2021.
Results: The Mean ± SD at birth for Foot Length (FL) was 76.4 ± 7.7 mm. The difference in FL between males and females was not statistically significant. We observed a significant correlation between FL and other anthropometric variables namely GA (r = 0.927), BW (r = 0.898), HC (r = 0.851), CC (r = 0.793) and length (r = 0.891). Using Receiver Operative Characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, we found that FL ≤ 73.1 mm had 95.4% sensitivity and 90.9% specificity in identifying LBW babies. FL ≤ 77.2 mm had 88.4% sensitivity and 96.1% specificity for identifying preterm babies.
Conclusions: We observed a significant correlation between foot length and other variables, namely birth weight, gestational age, head circumference, chest circumference, and length. Foot length had a high sensitivity and specificity in identifying LBW and Preterm babies, making it a reliable variable in the rural setup where weighing facilities, ultrasound, and trained personnel are not available.
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| Published | 10-01-2025 | |
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| Issue | No. 73 (2021) | |
| Section | Original article | |
| DOI | 10.38103/jcmhch.2021.73.14 | |
| Keywords | Từ khóa: Chiều dài bàn chân, đặc điểm hình thái, trẻ sơ sinh. Key words: Foot length, anthropometricparameters, new born. |
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