A new reference table allows certain parameters to evaluate, in that way, to say whether a baby born with low birth weight. This makes it possible to anticipate the complications that this can generate, among which has delayed growth.
According to the latest edition of the journal The Lancet, which published the findings were the team that developed this table, and which consist of their characteristics, “the main potential of the method not only have to do with the fact that the new table is more accurate and easy to use, but also with the possibility of using both developing countries and in those of the first world or developed.”
This, according to experts, is very important because until economic situations and countries with very poor health were having to consider their babies with parameters corresponding to places with a very different situation.
Thus, the novelty of the table developed by Dr. Rafael Mikolajczyk, Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine located in Bremen, Germany, is used for processing data from 24 countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
Measurements made with the table to identify or diagnose a possible fetal growth restriction as they pass through the weeks of gestation. This is the medical term used to refer to delayed fetal growth, which appears to be associated with an increased risk of neonatal mortality and disability as well as behavioral disorders, obesity, heart problems, hypertension and diabetes along his life.
In this regard, Dr. Rodrigo Latke, a member of the Obstetrics Hospital Durand and Institute Medico Halite’s commented that “the greatest risk to future carry babies is born with a kilo or a kilo and a half in weight. Also, it clarify that these children represent only 1% of live births, but in turn are those that hold greater risk of mortality. “
The specialist also recorded that, indeed, low birth weight affects the future development of degenerative diseases.
Also, in the days after birth, low birth weight increases the vulnerability of the child and also creates a risk due to the susceptibility to infections or respiratory symptoms.
It is important to note that no restrictions on their development will suffer all the children with low birth weight, ideally condition as postulated by the researchers who developed the new table must be detected before birth.
“It is therefore important to have previous measurements, performed with ultrasound, which are what allow us to assess how to address the fact that a child does not conform to normal standards,” they added.
Since both the causes of low birth weight are many, highlights the maternal disease, or malnutrition, infections or the action of certain drugs, and because the situation is very different depending on the layer in that is each country, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends regular updating of tables.
