Global Pediatric Health • December 2017

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Abdel-Rahman SM, Paul IM, Delmore P, James L, Fearn L, Atz A, Poindexter B, Al-Uzri A, Lewandowski A, Harper B, Smith PB.

Weight is the foremost marker of health outcomes in infants; however, the majority of community workers and health care providers in remote, resource-constrained settings have limited access to functional scales. This study develops and validates a simple weight estimation strategy for infants that addresses the limitations of current approaches.

Annals of Human Biology • December 2017

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Abdel-Rahman SM, Paul IM, Delmore P, James L, Fearn L, Atz AM, Poindexter BB, Al-Uzri A, Lewandowski A, Harper BL, Smith PB; Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act – Pediatric Trials Network.

Anthropometric data prove valuable for screening and monitoring various medical conditions. In young infants, however, only weight, length and head circumference are represented in publicly accessible databases. Our aim was to characterise length and circumferential measures in pre-term and full-term infants up to 90 days post-natal.