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The calliper had rectangular jaw faces measuring 40 mm. Three to five replicate measurements were taken on the right side of the body with subjects standing and mean of this was expressed as skin-fold score. The skin-fold thickness was measured to the nearest mm. except for low values (usually less than 5 mm or less), in which case it was accumeasure taken to the nearest accumeasure 0.5 mm. Four sites chosen were biceps, triceps, accumeasure sub-scapular and suprailiac. Body density in gms/cc derived from the sum of these four skin-fold thickness scores using the equations of Durnin and Wornersley[9]. Percent body fat content was then calculated from the body density values using the Siri's equation[10]. The precision of this method in estimating percent body fat content is reported to be ± 3.5% body fat[11]. Measurements of Girth: Measurements were made according to the specifications given by McArdle et al[4].
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