ArticlePhysiological measurement2020
Estimating birth weight from observed postnatal weights in a Guatemalan highland community.
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- Causal machine learning models for predicting low birth weight in midwife-led continuity care intervention in North Shoa Zone, Ethiopia.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Article
- Hierarchical Attentive Network for Gestational Age Estimation in Low-Resource Settings.IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics · 2023Article
- A review of fetal cardiac monitoring, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.Physiological measurement · 2020Review
- A Proxy for Detecting IUGR Based on Gestational Age Estimation in a Guatemalan Rural Population.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2020Article
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objectiveLow birth weight is one of the leading contributors to global perinatal deaths. Detecting this problem close to birth enables the initiation of early intervention, thus reducing the long-term impact on the fetus. However, in low-and middle-income countries, sometimes newborns are weighted days or months after birth, thus challenging the identification of low birth weight. This study aims to estimate birth weight from observed postnatal weights recorded in a Guatemalan highland community. APPROACH: With 918 newborns recorded in postpartum visits at a Guatemalan highland community, we fitted traditional infant weight models (Count's and Reeds models). The model that fitted the observed data best was selected based on typical newborn weight patterns reported in the medical literature and previous longitudinal studies. Then, estimated birth weights were determined using the weight gain percentage derived from the fitted weight curve. MAIN
resultsThe best model for both genders was the Reeds2 model, with a mean square error of 0.30 kg SIGNIFICANCE: By estimating birth weight at an opportune time, several days after birth, it may be possible to identify low birth weight more accurately, thus providing timely treatment when is required.
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