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Comparison of Various Obesity-Related Indices for Identification of Metabolic Syndrome: A Population-Based Study from Taiwan Biobank

by
Tai-Hua Chiu
1,
Ya-Chin Huang
2,3,
Hsuan Chiu
1,
Pei-Yu Wu
4,5,
Hsin-Ying Clair Chiou
6,
Jiun-Chi Huang
4,5,7,8,* and
Szu-Chia Chen
4,5,7,8
1
Department of General Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
2
Department of Preventive Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 801, Taiwan
3
Department of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
4
Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 812, Taiwan
5
Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
6
Teaching and Research Center of Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 812, Taiwan
7
Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
8
Research Center for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
*
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Diagnostics 2020, 10(12), 1081; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10121081
Received: 25 November 2020 / Revised: 9 December 2020 / Accepted: 9 December 2020 / Published: 12 December 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diagnosis and Management of Obesity, Eating and Weight-Related Disorders)
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This study aimed to evaluate the performance of 11 obesity-related indices, including body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio, waist–hip ratio, a body shape index, abdominal volume index, body adiposity index, body roundness index, conicity index, visceral adiposity index (VAI), and triglyceride glucose (TyG) index, in identifying metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adults. The information of 5000 participants was obtained from the Taiwan Biobank. Logistic regression analyses were performed to determine the associations between MetS and obesity-related indices with odds ratio (ORs). The predictive performance of the indices to identify MetS was compared using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and areas under curves (AUCs). Multivariate-adjusted logistic regression showed that the ORs for MetS increased across the quartiles of each index. ROC curves analysis demonstrated that TyG index had the greatest AUC in men (AUC = 0.850) and women (AUC = 0.890). Furthermore, VAI had the greatest AUC in men (AUC = 0.867) and women (AUC = 0.925) aged 30−50 years, while TyG index had the greatest AUC in men (AUC = 0.849) and women (AUC = 0.854) aged 51−70 years. Among the studied obesity-related indices, TyG index and VAI exhibited the best performance for identifying MetS in adults. TyG index and VAI may be the relevant indices to assess MetS in clinical practice. View Full-Text
Keywords: obesity; triglyceride–glucose index; visceral adiposity index; metabolic syndrome; population-based study; biobank obesity; triglyceride–glucose index; visceral adiposity index; metabolic syndrome; population-based study; biobank
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Chiu, T.-H.; Huang, Y.-C.; Chiu, H.; Wu, P.-Y.; Chiou, H.-Y.C.; Huang, J.-C.; Chen, S.-C. Comparison of Various Obesity-Related Indices for Identification of Metabolic Syndrome: A Population-Based Study from Taiwan Biobank. Diagnostics 2020, 10, 1081. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10121081

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Chiu T-H, Huang Y-C, Chiu H, Wu P-Y, Chiou H-YC, Huang J-C, Chen S-C. Comparison of Various Obesity-Related Indices for Identification of Metabolic Syndrome: A Population-Based Study from Taiwan Biobank. Diagnostics. 2020; 10(12):1081. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10121081

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Chiu, Tai-Hua, Ya-Chin Huang, Hsuan Chiu, Pei-Yu Wu, Hsin-Ying C. Chiou, Jiun-Chi Huang, and Szu-Chia Chen. 2020. "Comparison of Various Obesity-Related Indices for Identification of Metabolic Syndrome: A Population-Based Study from Taiwan Biobank" Diagnostics 10, no. 12: 1081. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10121081

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