ArticleScientific reports2019
Relative Fat Mass as an estimator of whole-body fat percentage among children and adolescents: A cross-sectional study using NHANES.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 64 citations in OpenAlex.
- Validity of non-traditional measures of obesity compared to total body fat across the life course: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- Tri-Ponderal Mass Index as a Screening Tool for Identifying Body Fat and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Pooled it
- Effects on Children's Physical and Mental Well-Being of a Physical-Activity-Based School Intervention Program: A Randomized Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Relative fat mass assessment estimates changes in adiposity among female older adults with obesity after a 12-month exercise and diet intervention.Annals of medicine · 2022Trial
- Family Dynamics and Longitudinal Trends in Pediatric Obesity: A Real-World Observational Study in a Public Outpatient Clinic.Obesity science & practice · 2026Article
- Probability of predicting dietary pattern adherence among primary schoolchildren based on socio-demographic data, anthropometric parameters, physical activity levels, and nutritional knowledge.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Association between relative fat mass and chronic cardiorenal syndrome: A cross-sectional study based on NHANES 1999 to 2018.Medicine · 2026Article
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- Association Between Relative Fat Mass and Parkinson's Disease in American Adults: A Large Cross-Sectional Study From NHANES.Parkinson's disease · 2026Article
- Relative Fat Mass Associated with Hyperuricemia in Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Endocrine, metabolic & immune disorders drug targets · 2026Article
- Relative Fat Mass as an Estimator of Abdominal Adiposity in Youth Across the BMI Spectrum from Normal Weight to Obesity.Pediatric obesity · 2025Article
- Effects of Early Weight Trends on Residential Treatment Outcomes Among Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Diagnostic performance of anthropometric measurements for identifying obesity in high-altitude pediatric populations: evidence from tibet via bioelectrical impedance analysis.Lipids in health and disease · 2025Article
- Predictive Capacity of Different Indicators of Adiposity for Metabolic Syndrome in Adults in the City of Trujillo, Peru.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Impact of Excess Adiposity on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children and Adolescents with Kawasaki Disease.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association of relative fat mass with asthma: inflammatory markers as potential mediators.Lipids in health and disease · 2025Article
- Prevalence of dyslipidemia and predictive value of anthropometric indicators among children and adolescents in the Tibetan Plateau.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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- The association between relative fat mass (RFM) and lumbar bone density in US adults: Insight from 2011-2018 NHANES.PloS one · 2025Article
- Relative fat mass is a valuable predictor of lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia in aging males: clinical implications.Translational andrology and urology · 2024Article
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Abstract
We evaluated the ability of the Relative Fat Mass (RFM) to estimate whole-body fat percentage among children and adolescents who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1999 through 2006 (n = 10,390). The RFM equation for adults (64 - (20 × height/waist circumference) + (12 × sex)) may be used for adolescents 15 to 19 years of age. For children and adolescents 8 to 14 years of age, we suggest a modified RFM equation, named as the RFMp (RFM pediatric): 74 - (22 × height/waist circumference) + (5 × sex). In both equations, sex equals 0 for boys and 1 for girls. RFMp was more accurate than BMI to estimate whole-body fat percentage (measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, DXA) among girls (percentage of estimates that were <20% of measured body fat percentage, 88.2% vs. 85.7%; P = 0.027) and boys 8 to 14 years of age (83.4% vs. 71.0%; P < 0.001). RFM was more accurate than BMI among boys 15 to 19 years of age (82.3% vs. 73.9%; P < 0.001) but slightly less accurate among girls (89.0% vs. 92.6%; P = 0.002). Compared with BMI-for-age percentiles, RFMp had lower misclassification error of overweight or obesity (defined as a DXA-measured body fat percentage at the 85
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