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Body fat percentage
human.body_fat_pctstatus: draft confidence: medium reviewer: none (unreviewed)
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Record fields
- id
- human.body_fat_pct
- name
- Body fat percentage
- definition
- Proportion of total body mass that is adipose tissue. Canonical reference method = DXA; never pool across methods.
- domain
- human
- system
- whole_body
- region
- whole_body
- type
- continuous
- entity
- UBERON:0001013
- quality
- pending
- relation
- RO:0000053
- quality_note
- No clean PATO quality for a mass proportion; term-request pending (entity adipose tissue verified).
- unit
- %
- allowed_range
- min
- 2
- max
- 75
- distributions
- model
- empirical_percentiles
- population
- id
- nhanes_dxa_kelly_2009
- name
- US civilian (NHANES DXA, Kelly 2009)
- sampling
- civilian_representative
- sex
- M
- years
- 1999-2004
- measurement_protocol
- DXA
- source
- nhanes_dxa_kelly_2009
- params
- percentiles
- 50
- 24
- unit
- %
- conditioned_on
- human.biological_sex
- human.age
- notes
- Young-adult anchor (~age 25); rises to ~31% by 60-79. Median-only from the published report; full percentiles need microdata re-pull.
- model
- empirical_percentiles
- population
- id
- nhanes_dxa_kelly_2009
- name
- US civilian (NHANES DXA, Kelly 2009)
- sampling
- civilian_representative
- sex
- F
- years
- 1999-2004
- measurement_protocol
- DXA
- source
- nhanes_dxa_kelly_2009
- params
- percentiles
- 50
- 38
- unit
- %
- conditioned_on
- human.biological_sex
- human.age
- notes
- Young-adult anchor (~age 25); rises to ~42% by 60-79. Median-only from the published report; full percentiles need microdata re-pull.
- dependencies
- incoming
- human.age
- human.biological_sex
- outgoing
- (none)
- evidence
- definition_sources
- nhanes_dxa_kelly_2009
- relationship_sources
- nhanes_dxa_kelly_2009
- confidence
- medium
- status
- draft
- version
- 0.1.0
- reviewer
- —
- notes
- Strongly age-conditioned; method-dependent (DXA canonical).