[Predicting visceral and abdominal subcutaneous adipose areas with anthropometric parameters in Chinese male patients with type 2 diabetes].

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To predict the abdominal subcutaneous adipose area (SA) and visceral adipose area (VA) with simple anthropometric parameters in Chinese male patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS: The SA and VA were measured by Computed Tomography (CT) in 91 Chinese male patients with type 2 diabetes. The anthropometric parameters used in predicting the SA and VA included weight (W), height (H), body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC) and waist to hip ratio (WHR). The multiple stepwise regression analysis was undertaken in a randomly selected sample with 77 subjects (80% of total subjects) to establish predictive equations between the SA or VA and the anthropometric parameters. The equations were then cross-validated in the remaining 14 subjects (20% of total subjects) that had not been included in the regression analysis. RESULTS: The BMI and WC entered into the final predictive equation for the SA, while the BMI remained to be the only variable for predicting the SA. The differences between the predicted values and the observed values were 2.06% and 4.34% for the VA and SA respectively. CONCLUSION: The VA and SA in Chinese male patients with type 2 diabetes can be well predicted by anthropometric measurements.