Assessment of total body fat in infancy from skinfold thickness measurements.

The influence of maternal passive and light active smoking on intrauterine growth and body composition of the newborn

“…We preferred to use Dauncey's equation (Dauncey et al, 1977) because in our opinion other equations proposed (Kabir & Forsum, 1993;De Bruin et al, 1995;Sheng et al, 1993;Davies & Lucas, 1990;Wenstrate & Deurenberg, 1989), concern children at different ages. Our data apparently bear evidence of a lower total fat mass in children of mothers exposed to passive and light active smoking.…”

“…Body composition (fat mass -fat free mass) according to the formula of Dauncey (Dauncey et al, 1977) also was estimated.…”

“…Particularly on body composition, obtained by applying equations validated by methods of recognised experimental value, to the anthropometric data (Dauncey et al, 1977).…”

Components of the metabolic syndrome in early childhood in very-low-birth-weight infants and term small and appropriate for gestational age infants

“…BMI was calculated. Total body fat was calculated according to Dauncey from skinfold thickness measurements and body dimensions (22). SDS of weight, height, and BMI were calculated according to Dutch references (23,24).…”

Is the Pair-wise Contrast of Fatfolds Significant in Determining Body Composition?

“…There is much literature on estimating body composition by using skinfold thickness measurements (Boileau et al, 1981;Dauncey et al, 1977;Durnin and Rahaman, 1967;Haisman, 1970;Lohman et al, 1975;Michael and Katch, 1968;Seip and Weltman, 1991;Vickery et al, 1988;Weststrate and Deurenberg, 1989). However, there are several problems in applying skinfold thickness to estimate body composition.…”