Assessing temporal differences of baseline body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-height ratio in predicting future diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Obesity is the prominent modifiable risk factor known to influence the occurrence and progression of diabetes other than age, and the objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the predictive value of three simple baseline anthropometric indicators of obesity, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist-height ratio (WHtR), for the occurrence of diabetes at different time points in the future.

Methods

The study subjects were 12,823 individuals with normoglycemic at baseline who underwent health screening and had measurements of BMI, WC, and WHtR. The outcome of interest was new-onset diabetes during follow-up. Time-dependent receiver operator characteristics (ROC) curves of baseline BMI, WC, and WHtR for predicting the risk of diabetes in th

SUBMITTER: Sheng G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9852880 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature