ArticleNutrition & metabolism2021
Visceral adiposity index outperforms conventional anthropometric assessments as predictor of diabetes mellitus in elderly Chinese: a population-based study.
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- Chinese visceral adiposity index predicts all-cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease: a retrospective cohort study.BMC research notes · 2025Article
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- Association between visceral adiposity index and incidence of diabetic kidney disease in adults with diabetes in the United States.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Gender differences in risk factors for ischemic stroke: a longitudinal cohort study in East China.BMC neurology · 2024Article
- Optimal obesity- and lipid-related indices for predicting type 2 diabetes in middle-aged and elderly Chinese.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Association between anthropometric indices and 5-year hypertension incidence in the general Japanese population.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2024Article
- Associations and predictive performance of 11 anthropometric measures with incident type 2 diabetes: A prospective cohort study from the UK Biobank.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Article
- The association between visceral adiposity index and decreased renal function: A population-based study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Visceral Adiposity Index in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and Its Correlation With Microvascular Complications.Cureus · 2022Article
- Changes in Novel Anthropometric Indices of Abdominal Obesity during Weight Loss with Selected Obesity-Associated Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms: A Small One-Year Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Association of visceral adiposity index with incident nephropathy and retinopathy: a cohort study in the diabetic population.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis study assessed the performance of visceral adiposity index and body shape index in predicting diabetes mellitus (DM) risk and compared their predictive ability to that of body mass index and waist circumference.
methodsAmong 8249 consecutive subjects who attended the Nationwide Health Check Up System for Senior Citizens (≥ 65 years) between 2008 and 2018, we examined the associations of several adiposity indices with DM risk and explored gender differences.
resultsAmong all adiposity indicators, Chinese visceral adiposity index (CVAI) demonstrated the highest discriminatory ability for diabetes mellitus with area under receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) of 0.65, 0.68, and 0.66 for men, women, and all participants, respectively, and optimal cut-offs set as 126.09 in men and 117.77 in women. Compared with body shape index (ABSI), both CVAI and VAI were strongly associated with baseline DM (adjusted OR: 4.85, 95% CI: 4.05-5.82 and 4.22, 95% CI: 3.53-5.05 for 4th vs 1st quartile groups by CVAI and VAI, P < 0.001), which was more pronounced in older adult women (P
conclusionsOur population-based data demonstrated that Chinese visceral adiposity index may serve as a superior clinical indicator of diabetes when compared with conventional anthropometric indices among older adult Chinese, especially in women.
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