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Assessment of Child Anthropometry in a Large Epidemiologic Study
Published on: February 2, 2017
Auricular anthropometry of Hong Kong Chinese babies
1Department of Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. taifaifok@cuhk.edu.hk
Objectives:
To provide a database of the auricular measurements of Chinese infants born in Hong Kong.
Design:
Prospective cross-sectional study.
Setting And Sample Population:
A total of 2384 healthy singleton, born consecutively at the Prince of Wales Hospital and the Union Hospital from October 1998 to September 2000, were included in the study. The range of gestation was 33-42 weeks.
Measurements And Results:
Measurements included ear width (EW), ear length (EL) and ear position (EP). The data show generally higher values for males in the parameters measured. When compared with previously published data for Caucasian and Jordanian term babies, Chinese babies have shorter EL. The ears were within normal position in nearly all our infants.
Conclusion:
The human ear appears to grow in a remarkably constant fashion. This study establishes the first set of gestational age-specific standard of the ear parameters for Chinese new-borns, potentially enabling early syndromal diagnosis. There are significant inter-racial differences in these ear parameters.
