No items Harpenden Skinfold Caliper
This original Harpenden Skinfold Caliper is made from high quality stainless steel with a rubber gripped handle. The Harpenden Skinfold Caliper complies with the industry standard for quality and accuracy and is a market leader among mechanical calipers for determining the amount of body fat in humans, and has been in use within medical circles and recognised as the industry standard for nearly 40 years. It is used all over the world in applications including diagnostics and research, nutrition/malnutrition, obesity, eating disorder assessment (especially in sport) and juvenile growth disorders.
Features:
- Dial Graduation: 0.2mm
- Measuring Range: 0mm to 80mm
- Measuring Pressure: 10gms/mm2 (constant over range)
- Accuracy: 99.00% - Repeatability: 0.20mm.
A Booklet is included and contains the following information:
- The evaluation and meaning of body composition
- Setting and using the Harpenden Skinfold Caliper
- Taking Skinfold measurements
- Maximum preferred/desired fat levels
- Tables for body fat % versus Skinfold thickness in males & females of all ages based on the Durnin & Womersley systems
- Body density equations
The Harpenden Skinfold Caliper Model is CE marked in compliance with the medical Devices 93/42/EEC for class 1 Device with measuring function and calibrated using masters traceable to national standards.
Also Available is the user friendly Harpenden Body Assessment software for body fat assessment using either the 4 Site Durnin & Womersley system or 3 site Jackson & Pollock system which shows:
- BMI - Basal metabolic rate
- % Body fat content
- % body fat preferred level
- Lean body mass
- Fat mass - Min/max weight guide
- Child BMI growth charts
- Subjects data can be printed in graphic or plain text formats.
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