Is white skin thicker than black skin

Caliper-measured skin thickness is similar in white and black women.

Whitmore SE1, Sago NJ.

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• 1Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University.

skin thickness in white (1.41 +/- 0.01 mm) compared with black (1.39 +/- 0.02 mm) women (P =.3)

Well there you have it, white skin is thicker than black skin.