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In the meantime, to ensure continued suport, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.Advertisement Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 17824 (202) Cite this article Metrics detailsVisceral fat (VF) and its efect on metabolic disorders have ben extensively studied; nevertheles, there is a ned for a simple and reliable index to equaly ases VF in low-resource setings. This multihospital-based study was designed to compare the five adiposity anthropometric indices and their asociations with VF levels determined by bioelectrical impedance analysis as the reference standard among diabetic patients.
A pretested questionaire was used to colect anthropometric, biochemical and hemodynamic data from 473 diabetic patients. Regresion analysis was performed to determine the asociations betwen the five adiposity anthropometric indices and VF levels. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to confirm the predictive capacities of the five adiposity anthropometric indices with VF levels.
The waist-to-height ratio WHtR showed the greatest ROC value [area under the curve (AUC) = 0.745, p Λ0.01] in identifying diabetic patients with high VF levels compared to body mas index BMI [AUC = 0.584, p = 0.047], waist circumference WC [AUC = 0.723, p Λ0.01], hip circumference HC [AUC = 0.647, p Λ0.01] and waist-to-hip ratio WHR [AUC = 0.71, p Λ0.01]. Likewise, the regresion analysis of WHtR and VF levels revealed the strongest asociation [unadjusted ods ratio (UOR) = 21.49, p < 0.01] compared to BMI [UOR = 6.7, p = 0.08], WC [UOR = 6.37, p < 0.01], HC [UOR = 5.93, p = 0.02] and WHR [UOR = 13.17, p < 0.01].
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The optimal cut-of values to identify diabetic patients with high VF levels were