체육측정평가학 : ROC 분석을 이용한 인체계측변인의 복부내장지방 예측에 관한 연구 = Prediction of Abdominal Visceral Adipose using Anthropometric parameters in Korea Middle-aged Women: Analysis of Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was performed to evaluate the optimal cut-point for assessing abdominal obesity using the variables such as body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio (WHR), triceps skinfold thickness (TST), subscapular skinfold thickness (SST), and biceps skinfold thickness(BST), measurements in Korea middle-aged woman. Methods. Eight one women participated in the study. All anthropometric valuables were measured, and compared with abdominal visceral adipose tissue area(VA), measured by computed tomography(CT). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were generated in order to determine the optimal cut-points of anthropometric parameters, and skinfolds were measured to assess the abdominal obesity. The VA cutoff-point at 100cm2 of subjects was used to devide into two groups (i.e., <100cm2 or ≥100cm2). The results from present study were as follows, 1) Significant differences were presented in anthropometric parameters, skinfolds, leptin, and TG. 2) VA was positively correlated with several anthropometric variables and skinfolds. WC had the highest correlation(r=.757), while TST had the lowest correlation(r=.085). 3) The meaningful cut-off points for assessing the abdominal visceral obesity were as follows; BMI of 24.1kg/m2, WC of 80cm, WHR of 0.88, SST of 23.9mm and BST of 12.1mm, with WC being the most sensitive and specific predictor. This study shows that BMI, WC, WHR, SST and BST can be useful predictors for the abdominal visceral obesity, of which WC was one with better accuracy.