Table 3.

Comparison of thickness of abdomen skin between races.

Abdomen thickness (μm)*	Epidermis	Dermis	% E (E+D)
European	41–40	1640–1492	2.4–2.6
Asian	69	1248	6.0
Our experiment	72	3900 (papillary dermis: 248, reticular dermis: 3652)	1.8

^*European values taken from Southwood [28] and Artz et al. [30] versus Asian from Lee and Hwang [29]. Last line: our experimental data.