ArticleBMC geriatrics2018
Using different anthropometric indices to assess prediction ability of type 2 diabetes in elderly population: a 5 year prospective study.
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- Baseline and longitudinal changes of body roundness index and incident type 2 diabetes: evidence from the UK Biobank cohort.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2025Article
- Association of baseline remnant cholesterol independent of LDL-cholesterol with newly diagnosed diabetes in the Chinese population.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Article
- Association of anthropometric and obesity indices with abnormal blood lipid levels in young and middle-aged adults.Heliyon · 2025Article
- Perspective from NHANES data: synergistic effects of visceral adiposity index and lipid accumulation products on diabetes risk.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Elevated body roundness index increases the risk of cardiovascular disease in Chinese patients with circadian syndrome.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Anthropometric Indices and Diabetes Disease: Based on the Rafsanjan Cohort Study.International journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Correlation and predictive value of novel anthropometric indicators with adult sarcopenia and sarcopenia obesity.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The joint effect of cumulative metabolic parameters on the risk of type 2 diabetes: a population-based cohort study.Nutrition & metabolism · 2024Article
- Impact of adiposity indices changes across the lifespan on risk of diabetes in women: trajectory modeling approach.BMC public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundEmerging studies have investigated the association between different anthropometric indices with diabetes risk but the results were inconsistent. The aims of the study were to examine the associations of different anthropometric indices with incident diabetes risk and whether novel anthropometric indices improve diabetes prediction beyond traditional indices among elderly Chinese.
methodsNine thousand nine hundred sixty-two elderly individuals (age ≥ 60 years old) derived from the prospective Dongfeng-Tongji cohort were included. Hazard ratio (HR) and corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI) were evaluated by Cox proportional hazard model to examine the associations between traditional anthropometric indices (body mass index [BMI], waist circumference [WC], waist-to-height ratio [WHtR]), novel anthropometric indices (visceral adiposity index [VAI], a body shape index [ABSI], body roundness index [BRI]) and diabetes risk. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and area under curve (AUC) were applied to compare the novel anthropometric indices with the traditional indices in diabetes prediction.
resultsDuring mean 4.6 years of follow-up, 614 incident cases of type 2 diabetes (T2D) were identified. Significant positive associations were detected between BMI, WC, WHtR, VAI and BRI and incident T2D risk. For ABSI, no significant association was observed in either men or women. BMI was the strongest predictor in diabetes in men (AUC = 0.655) comparable with the other anthropometric indices (P < 0.05). Similar as men, BMI was the strongest predictor (AUC = 0.635) in women. Except for WC, the AUC of BMI was larger than WHtR, VAI, and BRI. In contrast, ABSI was not a good predictor in either men (AUC = 0.507) or women (AUC = 0.503).
conclusionsIn elderly Chinese, BMI, WC, WHtR, VAI and BRI were positively associated with incident T2D risk. Among them, BMI was the strongest predictor in both men and women.
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