Influence of body fatness in childhood on fatness in adult life.
- 20 January 1979
- Vol. 1 (6157) , 151-152
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.1.6157.151
Abstract
Comparison of skinfold thicknesses measured in childhood and again 15 years later in 318 male and 303 female subjects disclosed only a moderate relation between the two measurements. Where adult fatness could be predicted from combinations of skinfold thicknesses in childhood the accuracy in 95% of cases lay at the mean between +/- 8% and +/- 18% according to age and sex.Keywords
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