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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mutational analysis of cfDNA to identify predictive biomarkers in previously untreated patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer receiving the GSK-3 inhibitor ...

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 ...