Influence of body fatness in childhood on fatness in adult life

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. © 1979, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.