Last menstrual period provides the best estimate of gestation length for women in rural Guatemala.

Last menstrual period provides the best estimate of gestation length for women in rural Guatemala. Research Abstract Details 

Research Abstract Table of Contents

Jump to the:

Last menstrual period provides the best estimate of gestation length for women in rural Guatemala. Abstract Text:

Lynnette M Neufeld,Jere D Haas,Ruben ,Reynaldo Martorell,

The accurate estimation of gestational age in field studies in rural areas of developing countries continues to present difficulties for researchers. Our objective was to determine the best method for gestational age estimation in rural Guatemala. Women of childbearing age from four communities in rural Guatemala were invited to participate in a longitudinal study. Gestational age at birth was determined by an early second trimester measure of biparietal diameter, last menstrual period (LMP), the Capurro neonatal examination and symphysis-fundus height (SFH) for 171 women-infant pairs. Regression modelling was used to determine which method provided the best estimate of gestational age using ultrasound as the reference. Gestational age estimated by LMP was within +/-14 days of the ultrasound estimate for 94% of the sample. LMP-estimated gestational age explained 46% of the variance in gestational age estimated by ultrasound whereas the neonatal examination explained only 20%. The results of this study suggest that, when trained field personnel assist women to recall their date of LMP, this date provides the best estimate of gestational age. SFH measured during the second trimester may provide a reasonable alternative when LMP is unavailable.

Last menstrual period provides the best estimate of gestation length for women in rural Guatemala. Publishing Authors By Initials

LM Neufeld,JD Haas,R ,R Martorell,

For similar abstracts research abstracts see: abstracts research

PUBMED ID PMID:

MEDLINE DATE:

Last menstrual period provides the best estimate of gestation length for women in rural Guatemala. Journal Published:

PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov

Journal: Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

VOLUME: 20

Page Numbers: 290-8

Journal Abbreviation:

ISSN: 0269-5022

DAY: 3

MONTH: Jul

YEAR: 2006

Last menstrual period provides the best estimate of gestation length for women in rural Guatemala. Information

Number of References:

LANGUAGE: eng

NlmUniqueID: 8709766

Last menstrual period provides the best estimate of gestation length for women in rural Guatemala. Keywords Mesh Terms:

KEYWORDS:

MESH TERMS:

Chemical & Substance for Abstract: Last menstrual period provides the best estimate of gestation length for women in rural Guatemala. Information

Substance Name:

Registry Number:

Grant and Affiliation Information for Last menstrual period provides the best estimate of gestation length for women in rural Guatemala.

AFFILIATION: Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. neufeld@correo.insp.mx

Country: England

AGENCY:

GRANT:

ACRONYM:

MEDLINETA: Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol

REFSOURCE:

DATABASENAME:

ACCESSION NUMBER:

Number Hits: 0

Last menstrual period provides the best estimate of gestation length for women in rural Guatemala Related Publications

• A simple index to measure hygiene behaviours.
• Cohort Profile: The Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) Nutrition Trial Cohort Study.
• Country development and the association between parity and overweight.
• Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults.
• Existence of a soluble form of CD50 (intercellular adhesion molecule-3) produced upon human lymphocyte activation. Present in normal human serum and levels are increased in the serum of systemic lupus erythematosus patients.
• Exposure to a nutrition supplementation intervention in early childhood and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in adulthood: evidence from Guatemala.
• Homozygosity for MECP2 gene in a girl with classical Rett syndrome.
• Intellectual disability: an approach from the health sciences perspective.
• Last menstrual period provides the best estimate of gestation length for women in rural Guatemala.
• Not Available
• Nutritional supplementation in early childhood, schooling, and intellectual functioning in adulthood: a prospective study in guatemala.
• The relationship between parity and overweight varies with household wealth and national development.
• The treatment of arteriosclerosis obliterans with the spleen extract.
• Weekly may be as efficacious as daily folic acid supplementation in improving folate status and lowering serum homocysteine concentrations in guatemalan women.
• Wheat flour fortification is unlikely to benefit the neediest in Guatemala.
• [Not Available.]
• [Not Available.]
• [Not Available.]