Body Fat of Basketball Players: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Sansone, Pierpaolo; Makivic, Bojan; Csapo, Robert; Hume, Patria; Martínez-Rodríguez, Alejandro; Bauer, Pascal

doi:10.1186/s40798-022-00418-x

Sports Medicine - Open

Table 1 Selected body composition parameters measured with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry

From: Body Fat of Basketball Players: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Authors and year	Population						Methods		Outcomes
Authors and year	Sample size (n) and sex	Age (years) [mean ± SD or range]	Body mass (kg) [mean ± SD]	Body height (cm) [mean ± SD]	Level	Sample description	Equipment	Software	Body fat (%) [mean ± SD]	Lean compartment mass (kg) [mean ± SD]
Atalag et al. [26]^a	36, M	21.3 ± 1.7	99.0 ± 16.2	191.4 ± 9.0	National	NCAA Division II	GE-Lunar Prodigy	enCORE v. 16.2	16.5 ± 4.4%	n.a
Dobrosielski et al. [27]	28, F	19.4 ± 1.3	73.1 ± 13.7	175.4 ± 9.3	National	NCAA Division I	GE-Lunar Prodigy	n.a	26.8 ± 4.5%	50.0 ± 6.9 kg [LBM]
Imeri & Dureha [28]	30, M	21.0 ± 1.7	75.0 ± 8.1	182.3 ± 9.2	National	Indian first league	n.a	n.a	15.3 ± 3.2%	63.4 ± 4.2 kg [LBM]
Nepocatych et al. [29]^a	10, F	18—22	78.7 ± 16.8	n.a	National	NCAA Division I	GE-Lunar Prodigy	n.a	28.2 ± 7.6%	48.3 ± 5.1 kg [LBM]
Ploudre et al. [30]^a	14, F	20.1 ± 1.2	72.1 ± 6.2	175.5 ± 5.7	National	NCAA Division II	GE-Lunar iDXA	n.a	28.5 ± 3.4%	49.1 ± 3.4 kg [LBM]
52.1 ± 3.8 kg [FFM]
Raymond-Pope et al. [31]^b	88, M	19.8 ± 1.3	95.2 ± 13.9	194.7 ± 9.1	National	NCAA Division I	GE-Lunar Prodigy	enCORE v. 16.2	13.8 ± 3.9%	76.5 ± 9.4 kg [LBM]
	122, F	19.9 ± 1.3	77.6 ± 13.3	177.9 ± 9.2					21.8 ± 9.7%	54.1 ± 6.7 kg [LBM]
Rockwell et al. [32]	14, M	19.9 ± 0.4	92.4 ± 4.1	191.8 ± 3.4	National	NCAA Division I	GE-Lunar Prodigy	Software version 8.10e	15.5 ± 0.8%	79.7 ± 2.8 kg [FFM]
	14, F	19.7 ± 0.3	69.7 ± 4.0	173.2 ± 3.4					23.7 ± 1.2%	49.3 ± 4.6 kg [FFM]
Sanfilippo et al. [33]	16, M	20.1 ± 1.5	92.1 ± 11.9	192.9 ± 8.9	National	NCAA Division I	GE-Lunar iDXA	enCORE v. 14.1	12.2 ± 2.0%	78.4 ± 8.3 kg [LBM]
	14, F	20.6 ± 1.6	76.3 ± 12.6	180.5 ± 7.0					23.6 ± 7.5%	54.6 ± 4.4 kg [LBM]
Sekel et al. [34]	11, M	20.4 ± 0.9	87.9 ± 12.5	188.6 ± 9.0	National	NCAA Division I	Hologic Horizon A	Hologic APEX Software v 5.5.3.1	15.0 ± 2.3%	n.a
	11, F	20.4 ± 1.0	81.1 ± 18.9	174.9 ± 9.0					25.5 ± 5.9%	n.a
Spiteri et al. [8]	12, F	24.3 ± 2.6	75.6 ± 14.6	177.7 ± 7.3	National	Australian WNBL	Hologic Discovery A	QDR for Windows, Hologic,
v 12.4		28.1 ± 7.5%^c	n.a
Stanforth et al. [35]^a	38, F	18–23	76.2 ± 0.8	178.6 ± 1.5	National	NCAA Division I	GE-Lunar Prodigy	enCORE v. 11.0	25.2 ± 0.5%	52.9 ± 0.3 kg [LBM]
Zanders et al. [36]	13, F	19.8 ± 1.3	74.6 ± 9.1	173.9 ± 13.6	National	NCAA Division II	Hologic QDR Discovery A	Hologic APEX Software
v 4.5.3		27.1 ± 3.2%	52.8 ± 6.6 kg [FFM]
Gantois et al. [37]	12, M	21.5 ± 2.7	80.6 ± 14.3	180.3 ± 1.6	Regional	Collegiate athletes	GE-Lunar Prodigy	n.a	23.0 ± 1.2%	60.5 ± 1.6 kg [FFM]
Taylor et al. [38]	14, F	20.4 ± 2.4^c	78.7 ± 16.8^c	169.6 ± 5.8^a	Regional	NCAA Division III	Hologic Wi	n.a	25.3 ± 4.3%^a	n.a
Sousa et al. [39]	10, M	23.3 ± 3.6	88.9 ± 15.3	192.9 ± 8.2	Regional	Brazilian state-level university league	GE-Lunar-DPX-NT	n.a	16.3 ± 8.0%	69.4 ± 6.9 kg [LBM]

F female; FFM fat free mass; LBM lean body mass; M male; NCAA National Collegiate Athletic Association; n.a not available; SD Standard deviation; WNBL Women’s National Basketball League
^aPre-intervention data or initial value of follow-up study presented; more data points available
^bStudies that reported the data for different player’s position
^cFor studies not reporting pooled estimates for the sample mean and sample standard deviation, the respective values were calculated using the sample sizes (n1, n2), means (m1, m2) and standard deviations (sd1, sd2) reported for the individual groups. The according equations are pooled mean = (m1*n1 + m2*n2)/(n1 + n2) and pooled sample standard deviation = sqrt [(n1-1)*sd1^2 + (n2-1)*sd2^2 + n1*(m1-m)^2 + n2*(m2-m)^2) / (n1 + n2-1)]

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