Optimal obesity and lipid-related predictors of diabetes mellitus in middle-aged and elderly patients with liver disease in China: a CHARLS cross-sectional study
摘要
Chinese middle-aged and elderly (≥45 years old) liver disease patients have a high diabetes mellitus (DM) incidence with gender differences. Identify the optimal obesity and blood lipid-related predictors of DM in such patients by sex.
MethodsUsing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) 2011–2020 data, we explored DM predictors by sex, evaluating with receiver operating characteristic (ROC), area under curve (AUC), etc., to calculate odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) after confounder adjustment.
ResultsMany indexes were significant (P < 0.05). Obesity and lipid-related indexes had certain discrimination (AUC > 0.5), with the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index performing best (AUC = 0.78). The visceral adiposity index (VAI) (OR = 1.08, 95%CI = 1.04–1.12) and the triglyceride-glucose-body mass index (TyG-BMI) (OR = 1.14, 95%CI = 1.06–1.22) promoted DM in male patients, while VAI (OR = 1.12, 95%CI = 1.08–1.16) and the triglyceride-glucose-waist circumference (TyG-WC) (OR = 1.15, 95%CI = 1.09–1.21) did so in female patients.
ConclusionTyG-BMI and TyG-WC are the best DM predictors for male and female liver disease patients, respectively. VAI also has predictive value for DM prevention.