South Asians are a high-risk group for type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease. We sought to determine ethnic differences in newborn adiposity comparing South Asians (SA) to White Caucasians ...

Our studies of ontogenetic development of skin fold thickness in 10,661 Czechoslovak children (5,322 girls and 5,339 boys) ranging in age from 1½ to 15 below the chin (submental region), at the half ...

The paper is based on examining the thickness of 10 skinfolds in 10.661 Czech and Slovak children of both sexes, within the age bracket of 1½—15 years. The authors, provided that the thickness of the ...

Background: The lean mass index (LMI) is a new empirical measure that tracks within-subject proportional changes in body mass adjusted for changes in skinfold thickness. Objective: To compare the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A long-term study has found that skinfold thickness during adolescence is a better predictor of being overweight as an adult than adolescent body mass index (BMI) -- the ...

Objectives: To compare the physiological and anthropometric characteristics of specific playing positions and positional playing groups in junior rugby league players. Methods: Two hundred and forty ...