Normal body mass index (BMI) can rule out metabolic syndrome: An Israeli cohort study

Medicine
Ofer KoboAmir Karban

Abstract

The aim of the study was to assess whether body mass index (BMI) can be used as a simple and reliable survey test for metabolic syndrome.The study is an observational cohort study among patients who visited the Rambam Periodic Examinations Institute (RPEI). We analyzed the correlation between obesity indices and presence of metabolic syndrome. We identified the ideal value of BMI for identification of patients at risk for metabolic syndrome. We also described the correlation between different BMI values and its negative predictive value (NPV) for metabolic syndrome.During the study years, 23,993 patients visited the RPEI, and 12.5% of them fulfilled the criteria for metabolic syndrome. Women with metabolic syndrome had higher proportion of obesity, when compared with men (89.9% vs 52.6%; P < .0001). Normal BMI had very high NPV to rule out metabolic syndrome among men and women (98% and 96%, respectively). Using receiver-operating characteristic curve, we found BMI 27 to be the ideal value for identification of metabolic syndrome for the entire cohort (area under the curve [AUC] 0.767, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.758-0.775, P < .0001), for men (AUC 0.726, 95% CI 0.715-0.738, P < .0001), and for women (AUC 0.843, 95% CI 0.831...Continue Reading

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