title: Beyond height and weight: a programme of school nurse assessed skinfold measurements from white British and South Asian origin children aged 4-5 years within the Born in Bradford cohort study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the feasibility, reliability and additional information gained from collecting additional body fatness measures (beyond height and weight) from UK reception year children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective cohort study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Bradford, UK.
  
  
  METHODS
  2458 reception year children participating in the Born in Bradford (BiB) cohort study.
  
  
  METHODS
  The feasibility and reliability of subscapular and triceps skinfold measurements and differences in adiposity between ethnic groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of those children who were matched to their school, 91% had a subscapular skinfold measurement and 92% had a triceps skinfold measurement recorded. Reliability was generally over 90% for all measurers and both measurements. Pakistani children were slightly taller but weighed less and had lower triceps skinfold thickness (mean difference -1.8 mm, 95% CI -2.1 to -1.4 mm) but higher subscapular (mean difference 0.1 mm, 95% CI -0.1 to 0.4 mm) than white British children.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We have shown that it is feasible for school nurses to collect skinfold measurements in a similar way to the height and weight measurements collected from reception year children for the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), and that these measurements are reliable. It is important for healthcare practice to acknowledge ethnic-specific risk and these additional measurements can provide important information to examine population-level risk in populations with large proportions of South Asian children.
authors.affiliation: Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford, UK School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5770-8363
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: West
authors.affiliation: Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
authors.forename: Gillian
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Santorelli
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Bradford District Metropolitan Council, Bradford, UK.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lennon
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Bradford District Metropolitan Council, Bradford, UK.
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: O'Connell
authors.affiliation: Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford, UK.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Corkett
authors.affiliation: Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford, UK.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Bradford District Metropolitan Council, Bradford, UK.
authors.forename: Shirley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brierley
authors.affiliation: Population Health Research Institute, St George's, University of London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Whincup
authors.affiliation: School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
authors.forename: Noel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cameron
authors.affiliation: School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Debbie A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Lawlor
mesh_terms: D050154:Adiposity; D044466:Asian People; D001827:Body Height; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012573:School Nursing / Q000193:education*; D012885:Skinfold Thickness; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000208:ethnology; D044465:White People
keywords: PREVENTIVE MEDICINE