Skin pigmentation in Caucasian babies is high and evenly distributed throughout the body.
To investigate if Caucasian babies have particular sun sensitive skin and if skin pigmentation before any sun exposure is uniform throughout the body, we measured skin pigmentation objectively by skin reflectance spectroscopy in 10 anatomical sites in 20 healthy Caucasian babies (mean age 5 months, range 1 to 10 months) that had not been sun exposed previously. We found that skin pigmentation at all the measured sites was significantly higher than the constitutive pigmentation in Caucasian adults (P < 0.01). Furthermore, the level of skin pigmentation in all the 10 measured sites in the babies was statistically not different (P < 0.31) and there was no gender differences in pigmentation for any site.
Lock-Andersen
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Department of Dermatology, Bispebjerg Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Knudstorp
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012880:Skin Pigmentation; D044465:White People