Abstract
Introduction: This study was done to assess the utility of foot length in determining theanthropometric parameters of a newborn in a tertiary care teaching hospital. Materials andMethods: This cross-sectional study among 270 newborns were done at Sri Venkateswaraa medicalcollege hospital and research centre, from Nov 2018 to May 2020. All the healthy live newbornswere taken into the study and newborns with congenital lower limb anomalies were excluded.Results: The mean birth weight of the neonate 2.948+0.344 kg which ranged from 2.050 kg to3.750kg. The mean foot length, head circumference and chest circumference of the foot length was8.113+0.468 cm, 48.989+1.093 cm, 34.437+0.659 cm and 32.372+0.734 cm respectively. The footlength had a maximum correlation with birth weight (r-value=0.905) followed by gestational age (r-value=0.809), length (r-value=0.786), head circumference (r-value=0.719) and chest circumference(r-value=0.603). Conclusion: Foot length had a significant correlation with birth weight andgestational age of the neonates. Foot length also correlated significantly with other anthropometricvariables like length, head circumference and chest circumference.
Highlights
This study was done to assess the utility of foot length in determining the anthropometric parameters of a newborn in a tertiary care teaching hospital
Foot length had a significant correlation with birth weight and gestational age of the neonates
7,000 newborn deaths are gestational age which included preterm, term and post-term who were delivered in the SVMCH within 48 hours of life were taken into the study
Summary
This study was done to assess the utility of foot length in determining the anthropometric parameters of a newborn in a tertiary care teaching hospital. All the healthy live newborns were taken into the study and newborns with congenital lower limb anomalies were excluded. The foot length had a maximum correlation with birth weight (r-value=0.905) followed by gestational age (rvalue=0.809), length (r-value=0.786), head circumference (r-value=0.719) and chest circumference (r-value=0.603). Conclusion: Foot length had a significant correlation with birth weight and gestational age of the neonates. Foot length correlated significantly with other anthropometric variables like length, head circumference and chest circumference. 7,000 newborn deaths are gestational age which included preterm, term and post-term who were delivered in the SVMCH within 48 hours of life were taken into the study. 7% of neonatal death occurs during the first week of life and 1 million. Exclusion criteria: newborns with lower limb congenital anomalies were excluded deaths occur within the first 24 hours of life.
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