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Human Body Fat Measurement: Features

The document discusses the Harpenden Skinfold Caliper, which is a precision instrument used to measure skinfold thickness to estimate body fat percentage. It has been established for over 40 years and is the only caliper certified as a class 1 medical device in Europe for measuring function. It is used worldwide in research and clinical settings to assess body fat, nutrition, obesity, and growth. It comes with reference tables to estimate body fat percentage from skinfold measurements and optional software to assess additional body metrics.

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Human Body Fat Measurement: Features

The document discusses the Harpenden Skinfold Caliper, which is a precision instrument used to measure skinfold thickness to estimate body fat percentage. It has been established for over 40 years and is the only caliper certified as a class 1 medical device in Europe for measuring function. It is used worldwide in research and clinical settings to assess body fat, nutrition, obesity, and growth. It comes with reference tables to estimate body fat percentage from skinfold measurements and optional software to assess additional body metrics.

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HUMAN BODY FAT MEASUREMENT FEATURES

• The Harpenden Skinfold Caliper is a precision instrument


designed for use in the performance of Skinfold thickness
measurements (from which estimates of body fat are derived)
The use of this instrument has been well established and
documented over the past 40 years
• Designed in 1958 in collaboration with D. J. M. Tanner, a
prominent force in the use of Skinfold measurements in the
derivation of body fat measurement
• It is the only Caliper CE marked under the Medical Devices
Directive 93 / 42 / EEC for a Class 1 Device with Measuring
Function and is calibrated using masters traceable to National
Standards
• It is used all over the world in applications including
diagnostics & research, nutrition/malnutrition, obesity, eating
disorder assessment (especially in sports) and juvenile growth
disorders
• It is supplied with a handbook which includes tables for body
fat% versus Skinfold thickness in males & females of all ages
based on the Durnin & Womersley systems
• It is also supplied with Body Assessment Software (Optional)

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
• Dial Graduation: 0.20 mm
• Measuring Range: 0 mm to 80 mm
• Measuring Pressure: 10 gms/mm2 (constant over range)
• Accuracy: 99.00%
• Repeatability: 0.20 mm.

BODY ASSESSMENT SOFTWARE ON REQUEST

HARPENDEN SKINFOLD CALIPER BODY ASSESSMENT SOFTWARE

Assess a subjects :- _ T_____ _

• Body fat % content .Jl;H,l c;j__;, e


--1....... --

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• Body fat % preferred
------· ·.. -..
--·
level
• Body mass index
-- ··--
---·
.,.

Basal metabolic rate


• Lean body mass
-_,....
-- -...- "_.........____
,._ ,

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....,._t-) ' ... ....

• Fat mass
----·-­
... ... --·--
___
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-·
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.................. 0 ....

Min/Max weight guide _,._,.,_ ...


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Child Bmi Growth , .,

Charts

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