Relationship between body composition indicators and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Chinese adults

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Analysis of the predictive effect of body composition indicators on T2DM

Body composition index	Classification	AUC	P	AUC95%CI	Cutoff points	Sensitivity	Specificity	Youden index
Waist-to-hip ratio	All	0.60 ± 0.02	< 0.001	0.58–0.63	0.90	0.706	0.458	0.164
	Males	0.58 ± 0.02	< 0.001	0.54–0.61	0.93	0.544	0.598	0.142
	Females	0.63 ± 0.03	< 0.001	0.58–0.69	0.89	0.582	0.628	0.210
Body fat percentage(%)	All	0.55 ± 0.01	0.001	0.52–0.58	25.02	0.810	0.273	0.083
	Males	0.58 ± 0.02	< 0.001	0.54–0.61	25.02	0.767	0.359	0.126
	Females	0.66 ± 0.03	< 0.001	0.60–0.71	36.60	0.516	0.739	0.255
VFA (cm²)	All	0.60 ± 0.01	< 0.001	0.57–0.62	92.00	0.600	0.540	0.140
	Males	0.58 ± 0.02	< 0.001	0.55–0.61	74.15	0.819	0.303	0.122
	Females	0.67 ± 0.03	< 0.001	0.62–0.73	90.15	0.813	0.464	0.277

Abbreviations: AUC area under curve, CI confidence interval, SD standard deviation, VFA visceral fat area, T2DM type 2 diabetes mellitus

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