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Determine normal cutoff values for body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-to-hip ratio based on their associations with diabetes risk in Asian Indian adults.

May 1, 2003Diabetes CareOpen Access

Cutoff Values for Normal Anthropometric Variables in Asian Indian Adults

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CSChamukuttan SnehalathaIndia Diabetes Research Foundation VVVijay ViswanathanIndia Diabetes Research Foundation ARAmbady RamachandranIndia Diabetes Research Foundation

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Cross-sectional analysis identifies lowered anthropometric risk thresholds for diabetes in Asian Indian adults, indicating heightened metabolic vulnerability at lower body sizes.

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Determine normal cutoff values for body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-to-hip ratio based on their associations with diabetes risk in Asian Indian adults.
Evaluated 10,025 adults aged ≥20 years without known diabetes using oral glucose tolerance tests classified according to World Health Organization criteria.
Performed sex-stratified, age-adjusted multiple logistic regression comparing diabetes to normoglycemia across stratified anthropometric categories, defining cutoffs at the threshold where risk became significant (P < 0.05) and evaluating sensitivity and specificity with receiver operating characteristic curves.
The normal cutoff value for body mass index was identified as 23 kg/m² for both men and women.
Cutoff values for waist circumference were 85 cm in men and 80 cm in women, with corresponding waist-to-hip ratio cutoffs of 0.88 in men and 0.81 in women.

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Snehalatha et al. (2003) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a131d763d45f5afe33be250 https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.26.5.1380

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Cross-sectional analysis identifies lowered anthropometric risk thresholds for diabetes in Asian Indian adults, indicating heightened metabolic vulnerability at lower body sizes.

Cutoff Values for Normal Anthropometric Variables in Asian Indian Adults

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