Title

Estimating gestational age using placental thickness and fetal weight

Authors

Durgesh Singh¹, Neha Gupta², PankajSingh³, Sanjay Singh^4,*, Shashi Prabha Singh⁵ & ShriLalRaghudev Ram Singh⁶

Affiliation

¹Department of Anatomy, MaaVindhyavasini Autonomous State Medical College, Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, India; ²Department of Anatomy, SMMH Medical College, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India; ³Department of Anatomy, Saraswati Medical College, Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, India; ⁴Department of Anatomy, Rajshree Medical College Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India; ⁵Department of Biochemistry, MaaVindhyavasini Autonomous State Medical College, Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, India; ⁶Department of Applied Mathematics The University of Waterloo, Canada; *Corresponding author

Email

Durgesh Singh - E - mail: dr.dpsingh84@gmail.com
Neha Gupta - E - mail: nehagupta0240@gmail.com
Pankaj Verma - E - mail: drpankaj0014@gmail.com
Sanjay Singh - E - mail: sanjay.shelly18@gmail.com
ShashiPrabha Singh - E - mail: dr.spsingh084@gmail.com
ShriLal Raghudev Ram Singh - E - mail: slrrsing@uwaterloo.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received February 1, 2025; Revised February 28, 2025; Accepted February 28, 2025, Published February 28, 2025

Abstract

The correlation between placental thickness, gestational age and fetal weight across different stages of pregnancy is of interest. Hence, 187 women (11-40 weeks gestation) at Maa Vindhyavasini Autonomous State Medical College and SMMH Medical College in India participated in this study. Results showed that mean placental thickness increased with gestational age (2.083 cm at 11-20 weeks, 2.623 cm at 20-30 weeks and 3.29 cm at 30-40 weeks), while fetal weight also increased (172.05g, 746.67g and 2584.49g, respectively). A strong positive correlation was found between gestational age and both fetal weight and placental thickness, except during early pregnancy (11-21 weeks), with statistical significance at the 5% level. Thus, the correlation between placental thickness, fetal weight and gestational age in 187 pregnant women, showing strong positive correlations, especially in later stages of pregnancy is reported.

Keywords

Gestational age, fetus weight, placenta thickness, ultra-sonographic

Citation

Singh et al. Bioinformation 21(2): 205-209 (2025)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.