title: Body roundness index and body adiposity index: two new anthropometric indices to identify metabolic syndrome among Chinese postmenopausal women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Body roundness index (BRI) and body adiposity index (BAI) have been recently proposed to assess obesity. The objectives of this cross-sectional study were to compare their potential for identifying metabolic syndrome (MetS) with traditional obesity indices in Chinese postmenopausal women.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 817 participants were involved in this study. Odds ratio and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI) between MetS and all indices were evaluated by binary logistic regression analysis. Receiver operating characteristic curve and area under curve (AUC) were employed to evaluate the abilities to identify MetS among all the indices. The differences in the AUC values between traditional indices and BAI as well as BRI were also evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The upper values of all indices were significantly associated with the presence of MetS after adjusting for potential confounders, except for BAI. There were no significant differences in the AUC values between BRI and the traditional indices; however, the AUC values of all the traditional indices were significantly larger than that of BAI.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Neither BAI nor BRI was superior to traditional obesity indices for predicting MetS. BAI showed the weakest predictive ability, while BRI showed potential for use as an alternative obesity measure in assessment of MetS.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Clinical Nutrition .
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: a Department of Clinical Nutrition .
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: b Department of Medical Examination Center .
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Lou
authors.affiliation: c Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology , Peking Union Medical College Hospital, China Academic Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College , Beijing , PR China.
authors.forename: Y N
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D050154:Adiposity; D019540:Area Under Curve; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002681:China; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016017:Odds Ratio; D017698:Postmenopause; D012372:ROC Curve; D012307:Risk Factors; D055105:Waist Circumference
keywords: Obesity; anthropometry; body adiposity index; body roundness index; metabolic syndrome X; postmenopausal women