A Fit-Fat Index for Predicting Incident Diabetes in Apparently Healthy Men: A Prospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of combined cardiorespiratory fitness and waist-to-height ratio in the form of a fit-fat index on incident diabetes risk. Additionally, the independent predictive performance of cardiorespiratory fitness, waist-to-height ratio, and body mass index also were estimated and compared.

Methods

This was a prospective cohort study of 10,381 men who had a normal electrocardiogram and no history of major chronic disease at baseline from 1979 to 2005. Random survival forest models and traditional Cox proportional hazards models were used to predict diabetes at 5-, 10-, and 15-year incidence horizons.

Results

Overall, 4.8% of the participants developed diabetes. Receiver operating characteristic curve analyses for in

SUBMITTER: Sloan RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4920380 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature