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We used the data of 5838 Chinese men and women aged \u226518 years from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the independent associations between Chinese VAI (CVAI) or body shape index and diabetes. The predictive power of the two indices was assessed using the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, and compared with those of BMI and WC. Both CVAI and body shape index were positively associated with diabetes. The odds ratios for diabetes were 4.9 (2.9\u20138.1) and 1.8 (1.2\u20132.8) in men, and 14.2 (5.3\u201338.2) and 2.0 (1.3\u20133.1) in women for the highest quartile of CVAI and body shape index, respectively. The area under the ROC (AUC) and Youden index for CVAI was the highest among all four obesity indicators, whereas BMI and WC are better indicators for diabetes screening. Higher CVAI and body shape index scores are independently associated with diabetes risk. CVAI has a higher overall diabetes diagnostic ability than BMI, WC and body shape index in Chinese adults. BMI and WC, however, are more appealing as screening indicators considering their easy use.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu11071580","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,12]],"date-time":"2019-07-12T11:49:38Z","timestamp":1562932178000},"page":"1580","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":192,"title":["Comparisons of Visceral Adiposity Index, Body Shape Index, Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference and Their Associations with Diabetes Mellitus in Adults"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1026-673X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Junxiang","family":"Wei","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi\u2019an, Shaanxi 710061, China"},{"name":"Global Health Institute, Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi\u2019an, Shaanxi 710061, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5105-0532","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xin","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Global Health Institute, Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi\u2019an, Shaanxi 710061, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hong","family":"Xue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Behavior and Policy, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Youfa","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi\u2019an, Shaanxi 710061, China"},{"name":"Global Health Institute, Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi\u2019an, Shaanxi 710061, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3099-3299","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zumin","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Human Nutrition Department, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"213","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMp068177","article-title":"Obesity and diabetes in the developing world\u2014A growing challenge","volume":"356","author":"Hossain","year":"2007","journal-title":"N. 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