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Nutritional Assessment Body Composition Skinfold Measurements 2019

Maastricht UMC+; Nutritional Assessment. https://nutritionalassessment.mumc.nl/en/skinfold-measurements.

Abstract

To estimate the total amount of body fat, four skinfolds are measured:

  • Biceps skinfold (front side middle upperarm)
  • Triceps skinfold (back side middle upperarm)
  • Subscapular skinfold (under the lowest point of the shoulder blade)
  • Suprailiac skinfold (above the upper bone of the hip)

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Publications on clinical nutrition have grown steadily in recent years and the scientific evidence has been improved by numerous observational as well as intervention studies. Various umbrella organisations, such as the Swiss Society for Clinical Nutrition (GESKES), the German Society for Nutritional Medicine (DGEM) or the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) publish guidelines on nutrition in various clinical situations at regular intervals. Thus, a large amount of literature is available for evidence-based nutritional medicine.


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List of abbreviations

DGEM German Society for Nutritional Medicine (German Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährungsmedizin)
GESKES  Swiss Society for Clinical Nutrition (German Gesellschaft für klinische Ernährung der Schweiz) 
ESPEN European Society of Clinicl Nutrition and Metabolism