Association of Total Body Fat Percentiles, Obesity and Cardiometabolic Health Biomarkers in Adults in the United States
Grant Herrington, Luyu Xie, Zhenglin Yuan, John Clark, Anna C Rivara, M Sunil Mathew, Sarah Khan, Deepali K Ernest, Jaime P Almandoz, Sarah E Messiah · 2026
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Grant Herrington and colleagues chart body fat percentiles for American adults and test what they predict in a 2026 study. Body mass index is a rough proxy for fatness, and direct fat measurement by X-ray scanning offers a possible upgrade for judging obesity and metabolic risk.
Survey data from more than fourteen thousand adults aged twenty to fifty-nine supplied the fat percentages. The percentile curves looked similar across ethnic groups, with one exception among Black men at the top end. Fat percentage predicted weight-based obesity well, and weight predicted high fatness equally well. Neither direct fat share nor the percentiles forecast blood sugar or liver enzyme problems strongly, supporting the index as a complement rather than a replacement.
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| CREATOR | Grant Herrington, Luyu Xie, Zhenglin Yuan, John Clark, Anna C Rivara, M Sunil Mathew, Sarah Khan, Deepali K Ernest, Jaime P Almandoz, Sarah E Messiah |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |