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G01 DETECTION OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT NEWBORNS BY FOOT LENGTH AS PROXY MEASURE OF BIRTH WEIGHT
S. S. Shah¹, P. S. Shrestha², F. C. Gami².¹Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, UK; ²Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, India

Background: The majority of births in rural areas of developing countries take place at home. Lack of weighing facilities make early and reliable identification of low birth weight (LBW) babies difficult.

Aims: To find out the correlation between birth weight and foot length. To detect LBW newborns by using foot length measurement as proxy measure of birth weight.

Methods: One thousand live newborns of gestational ages 26–44 weeks were studied at a hospital in Nepal. The foot length, crown-heel length, head circumference, chest circumference, and birth weight were recorded within 24 hours of birth.

Results: Foot length measurement showed the highest correlation (r = 0.92) among various anthropometric measurements with birth weight. The correlation between foot . . . [Full text of this article]