Factors associated with weight for height and skinfold thickness in British children.

Factors associated with weight for height and skinfold thickness in British children.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the associations of social and biological factors with measures of obesity in children. DESIGN The study had a cross sectional design. SETTING The analyses were based on data from two national study of health and growth cross sectional surveys. The "representative sample" comprised 1990 data from 22 English areas and 1990-91 data from 14 Scottish areas; the "inner...

Standards for skinfold thickness in British newborn infants.

Standards of triceps and subscapular skinfold thicknesses for 1293 Caucasian newborn infants of gestational ages 37-42 weeks, and of 0-25 kg birthweight intervals between 2-25 and 4-5 kg are presented. Female infants had a greater skinfold thickness than males, and the subscapular skinfold was greater than the triceps. The skinfold thickness in both males and females declined after 40 weeks of ...

Weight and Height Standard for Children of Shiraz City

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Percentile curves for skinfold thickness for Canadian children and youth

Background. Skinfold thickness (SFT) measurements are a reliable and feasible method for assessing body fat in children but their use and interpretation is hindered by the scarcity of reference values in representative populations of children. The objective of the present study was to develop age- and sex-specific percentile curves for five SFT measures (biceps, triceps, subscapular, suprailiac...

Standards from birth to maturity for height, weight, height velocity, and weight velocity: British children, 1965. II.