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Abstract
Objectives: 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.
Acknowledgements
We thank all the participants of the study. We acknowledge the Medical Examination Center at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, China Academic Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, for their assistance in this study.
Conflict of interest
The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
Source of funding
Nil.