ArticleScientific reports2021
Functional fitness norms and trends of community-dwelling older adults in urban China.
Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Functional fitness benchmark values for older adults: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Interactions Between BMI and Age on Fall Risk in Older Adults.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Effects of high-intensity interval training on depressive symptoms in Hong Kong community-dwelling older adults with mild to moderate depressive symptoms: a study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The relationship between Body Mass Index and Physical Fitness Index among college students: a cross-sectional study in Yangzhou, China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Culturally Adapted, Clinician-Led, Bilingual Group Exercise Program for Older Migrant Adults: Single-Arm Pre-Post-Intervention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Normative values to assess functional fitness in older adults in a region of Chile.Frontiers in aging · 2025Article
- Functional fitness and physical independence in later years: cut-off values and validation.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Level of body mass index, functional fitness, quality of life, and satisfaction with life among women aged 60+ years participating in an organised pro-health training programme.Przeglad menopauzalny = Menopause review · 2024Article
- Functional Fitness Norms of Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Southern Rural Taiwan: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Interlink among Age, Functional Fitness, and Perception of Health and Quality of Life: A Mediation Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Normative values and integrated score of functional fitness among Chinese community-dwelling older adults in Suzhou.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This study aimed to (1) establish age- and sex-specific functional fitness (FF) norms in Chinese older adults living in urban communities and (2) explore ageing-related degradations and sex differences in each FF dimension. A pool of 2398 individuals (1128 men; 1270 women) aged 60-98 years were recruited from urban communities of Nanjing, China. FF was measured using the Senior Fitness Test battery. FF norms were established for men and women in 5-year age intervals using five percentiles (10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th). Significant degradations in FF were correlated with increases in age. Around half of test items in 75-79 years group (3 for men; 4 for women) and over half in 80-84 years group (5 for men; 4 for women) exhibited significant decreases in FF compared with the adjacent younger group, indicating that ages of 75 and 80 years are two potential turning points in FF declines. Significant differences existed between the overall FF of men and women; women outperformed men in flexibility and men outperformed women in upper body strength, agility/dynamic balance, and aerobic endurance. Significant age and sex effects occurred in each fitness dimension, which helps individualised program design and promotes an active lifestyle in older adults.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.