Estimation of body weight using anthropometric parameters in Sri Lankan hospitalized adult patients

Abstract

0.05). All anthropometric based equations were significantly correlated with actual body weight (correlation coefficients: 0.741–0.869), and the new equations derived from the local data performed similarly to the best performing equation identified from the literature during validation phase. However, even the best of these equations could not outperform patient/physician estimates. When the patient weight cannot be measured, an estimate by the patient or the doctor may be the best substitute.