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Skin pigmentation in Caucasian babies is high and evenly distributed throughout the body
Author(s) -
LockAndersen J.,
Wulf H. C.,
Knudstorp N. D.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
photodermatology, photoimmunology and photomedicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.736
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1600-0781
pISSN - 0905-4383
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0781.1998.tb00016.x
Subject(s) - skin color , skin type , sun exposure , skin colour , dermatology , medicine , pigmentation disorder , computer science , artificial intelligence
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.