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.

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