"Skinfold Thickness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The measurement of subcutaneous fat located directly beneath the skin by grasping a fold of skin and subcutaneous fat between the thumb and forefinger and pulling it away from the underlying muscle tissue. The thickness of the double layer of skin and subcutaneous tissue is then read with a caliper. The five most frequently measured sites are the upper arm, below the scapula, above the hip bone, the abdomen, and the thigh. Its application is the determination of relative fatness, of changes in physical conditioning programs, and of the percentage of body fat in desirable body weight. (From McArdle, et al., Exercise Physiology, 2d ed, p496-8)
| Descriptor ID |
D012885
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.600.115.100.803 E05.041.124.803 G07.100.100.803
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| Concept/Terms |
Skinfold Thickness- Skinfold Thickness
- Skinfold Thicknesses
- Thickness, Skinfold
- Thicknesses, Skinfold
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Skinfold Thickness" by people in Profiles.
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Tarulli AW, Chin AB, Lee KS, Rutkove SB. Impact of skin-subcutaneous fat layer thickness on electrical impedance myography measurements: an initial assessment. Clin Neurophysiol. 2007 Nov; 118(11):2393-7.
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Gentiletti J, McCloskey LJ, Artlett CM, Peters J, Jimenez SA, Christner PJ. Demonstration of autoimmunity in the tight skin-2 mouse: a model for scleroderma. J Immunol. 2005 Aug 15; 175(4):2418-26.
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Wu HT, Schweitzer ME, Parker L. Is epidural fat associated with body habitus? J Comput Assist Tomogr. 2005 Jan-Feb; 29(1):99-102.
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Donnenfeld AE, Meister D, Allison J, Brennan K, Ludomirsky A, Rightmire D. Interobserver variability of sonographically determined second-trimester nuchal skinfold thickness measurements. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 1995 Feb; 5(2):119-22.
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Donnenfeld AE, Carlson DE, Palomaki GE, Librizzi RJ, Weiner S, Platt LD. Prospective multicenter study of second-trimester nuchal skinfold thickness in unaffected and Down syndrome pregnancies. Obstet Gynecol. 1994 Nov; 84(5):844-7.
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Sidney S, Sternfeld B, Gidding SS, Jacobs DR, Bild DE, Oberman A, Haskell WL, Crow RS, Gardin JM. Cigarette smoking and submaximal exercise test duration in a biracial population of young adults: the CARDIA study. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1993 Aug; 25(8):911-6.
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Dembert ML, Jekel JF, Mooney LW. Health risk factors for the development of decompression sickness among U.S. Navy divers. Undersea Biomed Res. 1984 Dec; 11(4):395-406.
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Dembert ML, Jekel JF, Mooney LW. Weight-height indices and percent body fat among U.S. Navy divers. Aviat Space Environ Med. 1984 May; 55(5):391-5.