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Findings from Technical University of Dresden advance knowledge in type 2 diabetes

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, November 16th, 2009

"Epidemiological and clinical studies, often including anthropometric measures, have established obesity as a major risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes. Appropriate cutoff values for anthropometric parameters are necessary for prediction or decision purposes," scientists writing in the journal BMC Medical Research Methodology report.

"The cut-off corresponding to the Youden-Index is often applied in epidemiology and biomedical literature for dichotomizing a continuous risk indicator. Using data from a representative large multistage longitudinal epidemiological study in a primary care setting in Germany, this paper explores a novel approach for...

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