AJCN North Carolina Research Campus
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Purchase Article
Right arrow View Shopping Cart
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Garn, S. M.
Right arrow Articles by Hawthorne, V.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Garn, S. M.
Right arrow Articles by Hawthorne, V.
Agricola
Right arrow Articles by Garn, S. M.
Right arrow Articles by Hawthorne, V.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 47, 836-839, Copyright © 1988 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

ORIGINAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Evidence against functional differences between "central" and "peripheral" fat

SM Garn, TV Sullivan and V Hawthorne
Center for Human Growth and Development, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-4044.

As shown in 1639 men and 1851 women in the 20-49 y age range, four commonly used skinfold measurements (triceps, subscapular, iliac, and abdominal) are all highly covariant and do not show clear evidence of upper-body and lower-body or central and peripheral groupings. Moreover, the four skinfold measurements are similarly related to systolic and diastolic blood pressures and to total serum cholesterol at each decile of skinfold thickness and to a degree that strikingly parallels summed skinfold thickness (sigma sf). The changing relative contributions of the different skinfold measurements to the summed skinfold thicknesses with increasing levels of fatness also reveal no evidence of consistent anatomical or topographical groupings by body segment or distance from the body core.




HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1988 by The American Society for Nutrition