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Receiver operating characteristics curve (ROC) analysis and 10-fold cross-validation were employed to explore and validate the performance of DFF in diabetes classification respectively.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Patients with LADA had a higher mean glucose, lower TIR, greater SD, MAGE and CV than those of T2DM (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>&amp;lt;0.001). DFF achieved the strongest correlation with FCP (r = -0.705, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>&amp;lt;0.001) as compared with TIR (r = 0.485, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>&amp;lt;0.001), mean glucose (r = -0.337, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>&amp;lt;0.001), SD (r = -0.645, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>&amp;lt;0.001), MAGE (r = -0.663, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>&amp;lt;0.001) and CV (r = -0.639, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>&amp;lt;0.001). ROC analysis showed that DFF yielded the greatest area under the curve (AUC) of 0.862 (sensitivity: 71.2%, specificity: 84.9%) in differentiating LADA from T2DM as compared with TIR, mean glucose, SD, MAGE and CV (AUC: 0.722, 0.650, 0.800, 0.820 and 0.807, sensitivity: 71.8%, 47.9%, 63.6%, 72.7% and 78.8%, specificity: 67.8%, 83.6%, 80.9%, 80.3% and 72.4%, respectively). The kappa test indicated a good consistency between DFF and the actual diagnosis (kappa = 0.551, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>&amp;lt;0.001). Ten-fold cross-validation showed a stable performance of DFF with a mean AUC of 0.863 (sensitivity: 78.8%, specificity: 77.8%) in 10 training sets and a mean AUC of 0.866 (sensitivity: 80.9%, specificity: 84.1%) in 10 test sets.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>A more violent glucose fluctuation pattern was marked in patients with LADA than T2DM. 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