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Objective To determine the association between fatty liver and coronary risk fcators in elderly men. Methods A cross-sectional study of 920 elderly men with or without fatty liver and obesity was performed in 2002. Age, body mass index (BMI), GPT, cholesterol, triglyceridemia, fast glucose, mean blood pressure, smoking and drinking consumption were analyzed. Results The prevalence of fatty liver was 11.1% in the non-obese participants (BMI
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Objective:To study the relationship between anthropometric indices and type 2 diabetes mellitus/impaired glucose tolerance(DM/IGT) in the elderly.Methods: This research included 537 people(416 males and 121 females,aged 65-85 years) undergoing medical examination in Shanghai in 2004.The body mass index(BMI),waist to hip ratio(WHR) and waist circumference(WC) were measured and their relationship with DM/IGT was analyzed.Logistic regression analysis and area under curve(AUC) of receiver-operating characteristic(ROC) were used to study the predictive value of BMI,WHR and WC.Results: Except for the WHR in females,BMI,WC and WHR were higher in all subjects with DM/IGT than those without DM/IGT.The prevalences of DM/IGT in all subjects with high BMI(≥25 kg/m~(2)),WC(≥90 cm) and WHR(≥0.9) were also significantly higher than those with low BMI,WC and WHR,except for that of the WHR in females.After adjusted by age,physical activity and the family history of DM,multiple logistic regression analysis indicated that WHR was the most important predictive factor for IGT/DM in males and the same was true for BMI in females.ROC analysis showed that the AUC of WHR was the highest in the males and of BMI in the females.Conclusion: Obesity is correlated with DM/IGT in the elderly.WHR and BMI are satisfactory predictive indicators and have higher predictive accuracy for DM/IGT in elderly males and females,respectively.