Wang, Xuelian;
Hui, Lai Ling;
Cole, Tim J;
Nelson, E Anthony S;
Lam, Hugh Simon;
(2023)
Fitness of INTERGROWTH-21st birth weight standards for Chinese-ethnicity babies.
Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal Edition
F1-F6.
10.1136/archdischild-2022-325066.
(In press).
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine the fitness of the INTERGROWTH-21st birth weight standards (INTERGROWTH21) for ethnic Chinese babies compared with a local reference (FOK2003). DESIGN: Population-based analysis of territory-wide birth data. SETTING: All public hospitals in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS: Live births between 24 and 42 complete weeks' gestation during 2006-2017. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Babies' birth weight Z-scores were calculated using published methods. The two references were compared in three aspects: (1) the proportions of large-for-gestational-age (LGA) or small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infants, (2) the gestation-specific and sex-specific mean birth weight Z-scores and (3) the predictive power for SGA-related complications. RESULTS: 488 896 infants were included. Using INTERGROWTH21, among neonates born <33 weeks' gestation, the mean birth weight Z-scores per week were closer to zero (-0.2 to 0.05), while most of them were further from zero (0.06 to 0.34) after excluding infants with a high risk of abnormal intrauterine growth. Compared with FOK2003, INTERGROWTH21 classified smaller proportions of infants as SGA (8.3% vs 9.6%) and LGA (6.6% vs 7.9%), especially SGA among preterm infants (13.1% vs 17.0%). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for predicting SGA-related complications was greater with FOK2003 (0.674, 95% CI 0.670 to 0.677) than INTERGROWTH21 (0.658, 95% CI 0.655 to 0.661) (p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: INTERGROWTH21 performed less well than FOK2003, a local reference for ethnic Chinese babies, especially in infants born <33 weeks' gestation. Although the differences are clinically small, both these references performed poorly for extremely preterm infants, and thus a more robust chart based on a larger sample of appropriately selected infants is needed.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Fitness of INTERGROWTH-21st birth weight standards for Chinese-ethnicity babies |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/archdischild-2022-325066 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2022-325066 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | birth weight; fitness; INTERGROWTH-21st standard; local reference |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Population, Policy and Practice Dept |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167598 |
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