ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Vet. Sci.
Sec. Veterinary Surgery
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fvets.2025.1656855
Objective measurements of skinfold thickness with a caliper show a significant relationship to total body fat percentage in dogs
Provisionally accepted
Josefin Söder1*
Ida Eskol Svenningsen2Julie Baltzer Larsen2
Mette Hedelund Rasmussen2
Fintan J. McEvoy2Kathrine Stenberg2
Anna Bergh1Charlotte Reinhard Bjørnvad2- 1Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- 2Kobenhavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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After the improvments requested by the reviewers, the abstract has exceeded the word limit by 13 words, so I can not past it here, sorry for that. Please see the abstract in the manuscript file!
Keywords: Body condition score, BCS, Bodyweight, clinical assessment, dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, DEXA, Overweight, Reliability
Received: 30 Jun 2025; Accepted: 19 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Söder, Eskol Svenningsen, Baltzer Larsen, Hedelund Rasmussen, McEvoy, Stenberg, Bergh and Reinhard Bjørnvad. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Josefin Söder, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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