ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health and Nutrition
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1598285
This article is part of the Research TopicSports, Nutrition, and Public Health: Analyzing their Interconnected ImpactsView all 12 articles
A study on the construction of body fat percentage percentile curve for adults aged 20-79 in China
Provisionally accepted
- 1Taizhou University, Taizhou, China
- 2School of Physical Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
- 3Guangxi Zhuang Fang Autonomous Region sports science Research Institute, guilin, China
- 4Jilin Research Institute of Sports Science (Jilin Provincial Anti-Doping Center), Changchun, China
- 5Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Sports Science Research Institute, wulumuqi, China
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Objective: To establish age-specific Body Fat Percentage (BFP) percentile curves for Chinese adults aged 20-79 years, providing a reference tool for accurate BFP assessment and the prediction and prevention of obesity. Methods: Based on the data from 29,064 individuals obtained through the National Physical Fitness Surveillance (NPFS) in four provinces across China (East, South, West, and North), GAMLSS (Generalized Additive Models for Location Scale and Shape) was used to construct gender-and age-specific BFP percentile curves, and obesity cut-off points were defined.
Keywords: GAMLSS model, Body fat percentage, 20-79 years old middle-aged and elderly, Percentile curve, Critical value
Received: 22 Mar 2025; Accepted: 28 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Tu, Pan, Zou, Liao, Chen, Li, Pu and Ding. 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:
Jinhui Zou, Guangxi Zhuang Fang Autonomous Region sports science Research Institute, guilin, China
Lihong Liao, Jilin Research Institute of Sports Science (Jilin Provincial Anti-Doping Center), Changchun, China
Yuanyuan Ding, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Sports Science Research Institute, wulumuqi, China
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