Accurate Estimation of Body Surface Area in Under-5 Children with Non-Edematous Severe Acute Malnutrition

Chhapola, Viswas; Kanwal, Sandeep Kumar; Shafi, Obeid; Kumar, Praveen

doi:10.1093/tropej/fmt061

Cited by 7 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 2 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The smallest bias demonstrated for Boyd and Mosteller formulae in the present study have been reported in previous studies. [ 23 24 ] Like these previous studies, the present study shows that Mosteller and Boyd's formulae are more accurate for BSA estimation than others formulae. Although Boyd's formula slightly overestimate BSA and Mosteller's formulae underestimates BSA in the Nigeria children population as previously reported by El Edelbi et al .,[ 27 ] they maintained the most clinically acceptable and fairly constant degree of bias as children's age increases.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

“…Moreover, Chhapola et al . [ 23 ] recently showed that Mosteller's formula is more suitable for BSA estimation of children with non-edematous severe acute malnutrition than Boyd's formula, thus supporting earlier reports.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

“…[ 22 ] This method was also described in many previous studies. [ 22 23 24 ] The estimated BSA of subjects from each of the five formulae was then compared with the mean-BSA. The correlations of the estimated BSA values were determined using regression analyses adjusting for age (in years).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Evaluation of five formulae for estimating body surface area of Nigerian children

Orimadegun¹,

Omisanjo²

2014

Ann Med Health Sci Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background:Physiological functions are often assessed by standardizing for body surface area (BSA) to avoid excessive variation in calculations in pediatric practice.Aim:To explore the suitability of existing formulae for estimating the BSA of Nigerian children.Subjects and Methods:This cross-sectional study involved healthy children in a Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria. The BSAs of 2745 children were calculated using the formulae by Boyd, Mosteller, Gehan and George, Haycock, and Dubois-DuBois, and the sixth arithmetic mean of these five formulae (mean-BSA) was performed. The outcome of interest was agreement between estimated BSA and mean-BSA for each method. The performance of each BSA estimation method was compared using bias, root mean square error and Bland-Altman plots of agreement.Results:The study participants comprised of 1229 males and 1246 females with mean (standard deviation) ages of 6.3 (3.0) years and 6.6 (3.1) years respectively (P = 0.01). Reference values for BSA estimates by gender were proposed each age group. Furthermore, BSA estimates from Boyd's and Mosteller's formulae were most similar to the mean-BSA with mathematically perfect correlations. The degree of deviation of BSA estimates from DuBois was largest with a remarkable increase at ages <6 years.Conclusion:Formulae by Boyd and Mosteller are the best BSA estimate for Nigerian children among the existing formulae.

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Evaluation of five formulae for estimating body surface area of Nigerian children

Orimadegun¹,

Omisanjo²

2014

Ann Med Health Sci Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The Meban formula was developed from foetal research in 1983 and was used to estimate BSA in newborn infants. It has been shown to be very accurate in that age group . The Mosteller formula, which was first presented in 1987, is a simplified version of an earlier formula that was developed by Gehan and George and it has been reported to be promising in paediatric patients …”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Six commonly used empirical body surface area formulas disagreed in young children undergoing corrective heart surgery

Sigurdsson

Lindberg

2020

Acta Paediatrica

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Aim Formulas for empirical body surface area (BSA), which is used to estimate body size and standardise physiological parameters, may disagree in children. We compared six commonly used BSA formulas—Du Bois, Boyd, Costeff, Haycock, Meban and Mosteller—in a surgical cohort. Methods This retrospective single‐centre cohort study comprised 68 children who had corrective heart surgery at Skåne University Children's Hospital, Lund, Sweden, from February 2010 to March 2017. Results The children (51% female) underwent surgery at a mean weight of 7.0 kilograms (range 2.7‐14.1 kg) and a mean age 11 months (range 0‐43 months). All the BSA formulas showed good correlation with mean BSA, but there were considerable variations between them. Mosteller's formula was exactly the same as the mean BSA (bias 0.000). The Du Bois and Boyd formulas had the largest mean BSA deviations (bias −0.012 and 0.015). Costeff's formula showed good agreement with mean BSA, Haycock's formula showed minimal overestimation and Meban's formula demonstrated a systemic error in older children. Conclusion Commonly used BSA formulas did not agree in young children undergoing heart surgery, but they were all close to the overall mean of the six formulas, with the Mosteller formula producing the same value.

show abstract

“…To substitute direct measurements of the BSA, several empirical formulas have been derived for more than a century, initiated by the pioneering work of Meeh (43) in 1879 on thermoregulation and metabolism. Table 1 lists more than 50 formulas (43–93) found by literature search in chronological order, together with a short description of the study population. It should be noted that we have neglected approaches, focusing on a simplification of existing formulas for a quick use like in emergency medicine.…”

Section: Body Surface Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

Exposed Body Surface Area—A Determinate for UV Radiant Energy in Human UV Exposure Studies

Schmalwieser

2022

Photochem & Photobiology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Solar ultraviolet (UV) exposure of people and related health risk is mainly examined by estimating the received UV radiant exposure. However, for several effects such as DNA damage, vitamin D photosynthesis or the probability of developing skin cancer, UV radiant energy is important and with that the size of exposed skin area. There is also a complex interaction between body shape and behavior like sun exposure habits, so that careful analysis is necessary when estimating health effects from UV exposure. In this paper, knowledge on body shape and methods of calculating the total body surface area (BSA) are summarized. BSA depends mainly on the height and weight of a person as well as on gender, ethnicity and body shape. BSA and body shape differ significantly between different populations and both change during life. This paper proposes formulas for BSA that consider height, weight, gender, ethnicity and body shape. As the exposed BSA depends on clothing, finally an approach is presented which aims to calculate the size of body parts released by real garments. In summary, this paper will enable future researchers to quantify the exposed BSA by best matching their study population and consequently investigate risks caused by solar UV exposure.

show abstract

Accurate Estimation of Body Surface Area in Under-5 Children with Non-Edematous Severe Acute Malnutrition

Abstract: Among seven equations, Mosteller is useful for BSA calculation in NE-SAM. SAM Mosteller modified equation (164.551 × [Ht × Wt](0.5)) has least error and can serve as best measure of BSA in SAM children.

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Evaluation of five formulae for estimating body surface area of Nigerian children

Evaluation of five formulae for estimating body surface area of Nigerian children

Six commonly used empirical body surface area formulas disagreed in young children undergoing corrective heart surgery

Exposed Body Surface Area—A Determinate for UV Radiant Energy in Human UV Exposure Studies

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About