A Proposal for the Cutoff Point of Waist Circumference for the Diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome in the Japanese Population
- Takayoshi Ohkubo, MD, PHD1,
- Masahiro Kikuya, MD, PHD2,
- Kei Asayama, MD, PHD1 and
- Yutaka Imai, MD, PHD2
- 1Department of Planning for Drug Development and Clinical Evaluation, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- 2Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Address correspondence to Takayoshi Ohkubo, MD, PhD, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan. E-mail: tohkubo{at}mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp
In a community-based cohort of 692 Japanese individuals, Hara et al. (1) investigated the relationship between cutoff values used for the waist circumference to define central obesity and rates of detection of subjects displaying multiple risk factors of metabolic syndrome. Using the receiver-operator characteristic (ROC) curve, they proposed an optimal cutoff point of waist circumference for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome …
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A Proposal for the Cutoff Point of Waist Circumference for the Diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome in the Japanese Population
