RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Assessment of total body fat in infancy from skinfold thickness measurements.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 223
OP 227
DO 10.1136/adc.52.3.223
VO 52
IS 3
A1 M J Dauncey
A1 G Gandy
A1 D Gairdner
YR 1977
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/52/3/223.abstract
AB A formula is given, allowing a value for total body fat to be calculated from skinfold thickness measurements at two sites (subscapular and triceps), in conjunction with nine body dimensions. For newborn infants total body fat so calculated accorded satisfactorily with published data from cadaver analyses. The formula has been tentatively applied to infants up to the age of 40 weeks, and to preterm infants. The difference between the growth of male and female infants was analysed in a series of 27 normal infants; the greater growth of musculoskeletal tissue in the male contrasted with the relatively greater growth of fat tissue in the female.