ArticlePublic health2020
Mid-upper arm circumference as a substitute of the body mass index for assessment of nutritional status among adult and adolescent females: learning from an impoverished Indian state.
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- Correlation Between Mini Nutritional Assessment and Anthropometric Measurements Among Community-Dwelling Elderly Individuals in Rural Southern Thailand.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesFor population-level screening of malnutrition among adults-especially in developing-country settings-the body mass index (BMI) can be impractical because of logistical requirements for weight and height measurement. We analyzed anthropometric data collected from a large-scale nutritional survey on women of rural Bihar to determine the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) cutoffs corresponding to standard BMI cutoffs and the predictive accuracies of the determined cutoffs. STUDY
designIt was a cross-sectional study using multistage cluster sampling.
methodsThe current analysis used anthropometric data from a study on dietary practices of rural women (adolescents, lactating mothers, and women in the interpregnancy period). The MUAC (cm) cutoffs corresponding to four standard BMI (kg/m
resultWe detected a significant positive correlation between BMI and MUAC (r = 0.81, P < 0.0001). In ROC curve analysis, the MUAC cutoffs corresponding to BMI cutoffs of 18.5, 23, 25, and 30 kg/m
conclusionThe results suggest that the cutoffs based on MUAC-a less resource-intensive measure than BMI-can be used for community-based screening of malnutrition among women of Bihar.
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