Farmer G
Arch Dis Child. 1985 Sep;60(9):840-2. doi: 10.1136/adc.60.9.840.
Skinfold thickness was measured at five sites in 750 infants. The study population was unselected except that twin pregnancies and the infants of diabetic mothers were excluded, and very preterm infants were under represented. A pilot study had indicated that skinfold measurement was most reproducible at the thigh site. Thigh skinfold correlated better with the sum of other skinfolds than did skinfold measurement at any other site and closely resembled the summed skinfold in correlations with a number of maternal and fetal variables. Median skinfold increased with birthweight and was greater in girls than in boys. 'Corrected skinfold', a mathematical approach to comparing skinfolds in infants of differing sex and birthweight, is suggested as an alternative to absolute skinfold measurement.
在750名婴儿的五个部位测量了皮褶厚度。除了排除双胎妊娠和糖尿病母亲的婴儿，且极早产儿的代表性不足外，研究人群未经过筛选。一项初步研究表明，大腿部位的皮褶测量重复性最好。与其他任何部位的皮褶测量相比，大腿皮褶与其他皮褶总和的相关性更好，并且在与许多母体和胎儿变量的相关性方面与皮褶总和非常相似。皮褶中位数随出生体重增加，女孩大于男孩。建议采用“校正皮褶”，这是一种比较不同性别和出生体重婴儿皮褶的数学方法，作为绝对皮褶测量的替代方法。
