caa a22 4500 378882708 CHVBK 20180305123435.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041104xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/JPM.2004.120 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/JPM.2004.120 Predicting neonatal outcomes: birthweight, body mass index or ponderal index? [Elektronische Daten] [Hala Tamim, Hind Beydoun, Mohammad Itani, Mustafa Khogali, Imad Chokr, Khalid A. Yunis] Aims: To compare birthweight (BW), body mass index (BMI) and ponderal index (PI) as predictors of selected short-term (ST) outcomes, namely Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) admission and prolonged hospitalization (PH), among newborn (NB) infants. Methods: Data was collected prospectively on 9,226 infants born during one year at nine tertiary care hospitals in Greater Beirut, Lebanon. The predictive abilities of BW, BMI and PI were compared using the area under the receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves and sensitivity analysis was performed at the optimal cut-off points for the best anthropometric measurement. Results: The area under the ROC curve suggested superior discriminative power for BW as compared to BMI or PI, as a predictor of NICU admission (ROC area = 0.73) and PH (ROC area = 0.74). The optimal BW cut-off point was 2750 g (sensitivity: 0.49; specificity: 0.89) and 2950 g (sensitivity: 0.62; specificity: 0.78) for NICU admission and PH, respectively. Conclusion: In our population of NB infants, BW - a crude measure of fetal growth - is a better predictor than either BMI - a measure of adiposity in adults and children - or PI - a measure of thinness at birth - for selected ST outcomes in NB infants. © Walter de Gruyter Human reproduction, growth & development nationallicence Gynaecology & obstetrics nationallicence Paediatric medicine nationallicence birthweight nationallicence body mass index nationallicence ponderal index nationallicence Tamim Hala Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon aut Beydoun Hind Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon aut Itani Mohammad Department of Pediatrics, Najjar Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon & the Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon aut Khogali Mustafa Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon aut Chokr Imad Department of Pediatrics, Middle East Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon aut Yunis Khalid A. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon aut Journal of Perinatal Medicine Walter de Gruyter 32/6(2004-11-04), 509-513 0300-5577 32:6<509 2004 32 jpme https://doi.org/10.1515/JPM.2004.120 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/JPM.2004.120 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tamim Hala Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Beydoun Hind Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Itani Mohammad Department of Pediatrics, Najjar Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon & the Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Khogali Mustafa Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chokr Imad Department of Pediatrics, Middle East Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yunis Khalid A. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Perinatal Medicine Walter de Gruyter 32/6(2004-11-04), 509-513 0300-5577 32:6<509 2004 32 jpme CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter