title: [The methods of exploring obesity cutoffs for screening/diagnosing diabetes].
abstract: It is important to establish an appropriate obesity-cutoff method to identify people with diabetes or at high risk of the disease. Aside from restricted cubic splines and fractional polynomial model, the receiver operating characteristic curve is the most frequently one used to define these cutoffs. In this study, we explored the obesity cutoffs across different ethnic populations and evaluated the merits/demerits of different Methods by reviewing the currently used obesity cutoffs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Key Clinical Center for Metabolic Disease, Shanghai 200233, China.
authors.forename: Peizhu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xuhong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Weiping
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jia
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D009765:Obesity / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D012372:ROC Curve; D012016:Reference Values; D012307:Risk Factors