Ponderal Index: An Important Anthropometric Indicator for Physical Growth

Devajit Mohajan

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Abstract: The Ponderal Index (PI) is an essential measure to study physical growth of fetus, infants, newborn babies, adolescents, and adults. Lower PI is found among the malnourish infants and newborn babies and higher in obese ones. PI is also applied in maternity treatment to detect impaired fetal growth. Neonatal PI is essential to identify the effects of gestation age, sex, and maternal parity. In this study aspects of Ponderal Index (PI) are discussed to increase the measurement area for the reduction of risk factors of the infants and children morbidity and mortality.

Keywords: Ponderal index; malnutrition; fetal growth; infants; newborn babies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 A14 C2 C21 C51 C52 C53 I1 I12 I15 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-02-10, Revised 2023-02-13
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Published in Journal of Innovations in Medical Research 6.2(2023): pp. 15-19

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