Ponderal indices at birth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12030548 |
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| Authors | R Grande (Universidad de Alcalá, corresponding author), R M Grande, ELSA SARTI GUTTIEREZ (Universidad de Alcalá), E Guttierez, Federico Argüelles‐Arias (0000-0003-3646-8919, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), F Argüelles, Charles Susanne (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 153-160 |
| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0393-9383 • E-ISSN: 1824-3096 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/bf02443895 |
| OpenAlex | W2015925003 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
At birth, the index weight/height is the highest correlated with weight, height and cephalic perimeter, for the index of Quételet (BMI) the correlations are also significant although lower. In both cases, the variation with age is significant. For the Rohrer index, the situation is different, the changes with age being almost absent. In front of these results, can we decide which index would be adequate to establish the nutritional status at birth? For Cole (1986), for such a ponderal index the correlation with height would have to be absent. Rolland-Cachera (1982) proposed also that the correlations with height would be absent but would be high with weight. In the case of the newborns of our study the only index being not correlated to height is the Rohrer index with low correlation also with the cephalic perimeter and high correlation with weight (although here the correlation is even higher with BMI and W/H). During the utero-placentary disfunction the foetal weight is affected but not height and cephalic perimeter: in this case, the advantage is also to an index correlated with weight but not with height
Biology · Birth weight · Body height · Body weight · Correlation · Geometry · Index (typography · Negative correlation · Perimeter · Positive correlation · Pregnancy · Birth, Development, and Health · Bone and Dental Protein Studies · Cleft Lip and Palate Research · Demography · Mathematics · Medicine · Internal Medicine
| Highly cited | No |
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