Distribution of Sample
for Skin Observations
TABLE 2
(by Age, Sex, and Exposure Group)
Age at
Group }
vation
Male
10-19
5
20-29
7
Group 2
Female
Male
3
30-39
21
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1
6
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ti
15
10
43
8
36
Mole
Female
4
7
24
11
18
7
18
7
23
11
22
50-59
1]
26
11
19
4
19}
11
20
60-69
5
9
14
10;
10
14
7
16
70-79
2
2
1
3
4
4
1
2
80-89
—
3]
—
—
1
2
Total
50
111
45
112
49
96
3|/—
94
52
The pincer hands were allowed to spring
shut, and the nurse recorded whether
a fold of skin was caught by the maneuver. This was simply a negative or posi-
tive test without quantitation of thesize
of the skin fold caught (table 3).
Hair graying. Hair graying in the temple area was estimated by a simple
scoring system that utilized a 0 to 3+
Percentageof Patients
WhoseSkin Folds Were Caught
tby Age and Exposure Group)
Age at
examination
Group 1
10-19
20-29
30-39
Csi
Group 4
Female
40-49
TABLE 3
ee
Male
4
Skin looseness was determined by
whether or not the opened pincer could
pick up and hold a fold on the skin of
the forearm. The pincer was opened to
2 cm. The 2 hands of the pincer were
placed with moderate firmness on the
undersurface of the right forearm at a
right angle to the longitudinal axis of
the arm and about 2 in. below the elbow.
30
Group 3
Female
Mean
total
percentage
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
61.5
57
50
44
55
64
76.6
84.6
83.5
78.5
96.5
40-49
100
98
100
97
100
100
100
97.5
100
50-59
100
100
100
100
100
60-69
100
100
100
100
100
70-79
TOO
100
100
100
100
80-89
100
100
100
100
100
GERIATRICS, JANUARY 1961