Visceral adiposity index outperforms conventional anthropometric assessments as predictor of diabetes mellitus in elderly Chinese: a population-based study

BACKGROUND: This study assessed the performance of visceral adiposity index and body shape index in predicting diabetes mellitus (DM) risk and compared their predictive ability to that of body mass index and waist circumference. METHODS: Among 8249 consecutive subjects who attended the Nationwide He...

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Autores principales: Tsou, Meng-Ting, Chang, Yu-Chen, Hsu, Ching-Ping, Kuo, Yang-Che, Yun, Chun-Ho, Huang, Wei-Hsin, Hu, Kuang-Chun, Liu, Chia-Yuan, Chen, Ying-Ju, Sung, Kuo-Tzu, Liu, Chuan-Chuan, Hung, Chung-Lieh, Kuo, Jen-Yuan, Chen, Tung-Ying, Hung, Ta-Chuan, Yeh, Hung-I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8465784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34563209
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12986-021-00608-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8465784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34563209
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12986-021-00608-6

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