Effects of age, gender, BMI, and anatomical site on skin thickness in children and adults with diabetes.

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We aimed to assess the effects of age, sex, body mass index (BMI), and anatomical site on skin thickness in children and adults with diabetes.

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Epidermal thickness at different body sites: relationship to age, gender, pigmentation, blood content, skin type and smoking habits.

Hans Wulf, Karin T. Poulsen, J Möller (2002)

Epidermal thickness and its relationship to age, gender, skin type, pigmentation, blood content, smoking habits and body site is important in dermatologic research and was investigated in this study. Biopsies from three different body sites of 71 human volunteers were obtained, and thickness of the stratum corneum and cellular epidermis was measured microscopically using a preparation technique preventing tissue damage. Multiple regressions analysis was used to evaluate the effect of the various factors independently of each other. Mean (SD) thickness of the stratum corneum was 18.3 (4.9) microm at the dorsal aspect of the forearm, 11.0 (2.2) microm at the shoulder and 14.9 (3.4) microm at the buttock. Corresponding values for the cellular epidermis were 56.6 (11.5) microm, 70.3 (13.6) microm and 81.5 (15.7) microm, respectively. Body site largely explains the variation in epidermal thickness, but also a significant individual variation was observed. Thickness of the stratum corneum correlated positively to pigmentation (p = 0.0008) and negatively to the number of years of smoking (p < 0.0001). Thickness of the cellular epidermis correlated positively to blood content (P = 0.028) and was greater in males than in females (P < 0.0001). Epidermal thickness was not correlated to age or skin type.

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The influence of age and sex on skin thickness, skin collagen and density.

S Shuster, K. M. Black, E McVitie (1975)

Forearm skin collagen, dermal thickness and collagen density were measured in a large number of normal subjects as a standard reference for future studies. Skin collagen decreased with age and was less in the females at all ages. There is a direct relationship between skin collagen and dermal thickness but variations in collagen density in disease limit the use of dermal thickness as a guide to changes in its collagen content.

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Skin thickness of Korean adults.

Agnes Y Y Lee, K Hwang (2015)

Skin thickness varies considerably between different races and age-groups, between men and women, and between different regions of the body surface. A few authors reported the skin thickness of different regions of the body, but no detailed study have been performed on Asian. We performed 452 biopsies on 28 different regions of the normal skin of Korean men and women. The specimens were stained with hematoxylin-eosin and measured microscopically. The thickness of the skin (epidermis plus dermis) ranged from 521 to 1977 microm; the eyelid, prepuce, and inguinal skin was thinnest (521-626 microm), and the back was thickest (1977 microm). The thickness of the epidermis varied from 31 to 637 microm; skin thickness in the prepuce, eyelid, supraclavicular region, postauricular region, and axilla ranged from 31 to 71 microm; the buttock, dorsum of the hand, and dorsum of the foot were relatively thick (138-189 microm); the palm and sole were thickest (601-637 microm). The thickness dermis varied from 469 to 1942 microm; skin thickness in the eyelid, prepuce, inguinal region, and postauricular region ranged from 469 to 645 microm; the buttock, chest, and anterior neck were relatively thick (1318-1586 microm); the back was thickest (1942 microm). The epidermis accounted for 3.7-16.8% of the entire skin in most regions, except in the palm and sole (40.6-44.6%). Thickness data may be useful in harvesting full- or split-thickness skin grafts.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE

Title: PloS one

Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)

ISSN (Electronic): 1932-6203

ISSN (Print): 1932-6203

Publication date (Electronic): 2014

Volume: 9

Issue: 1

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[1 ] Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

[2 ] Department of Dermatology, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand.

[3 ] Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand ; Gravida: National Centre for Growth and Development, Auckland, New Zealand.

[4 ] Auckland Diabetes Centre, Auckland District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand.

[5 ] Auckland Radiology Group, Auckland, New Zealand.

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Publisher Item ID: PONE-D-13-35821

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086637

PMC ID: 3897752

PubMed ID: 24466182

SO-VID: 55b82771-d37f-40b2-ad2e-99cb8b967f4a

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