Research Article

Relationship between Body Roundness Index and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Japanese Men and Women: A Reanalysis of a Cohort Study

Table 3

Threshold effect analysis of BRI for incident T2DM in men in the NAGALA study.

Inflection pointHazard ratio (95% CI) value

Two-piecewise linear regression model
BRI Z score <0.12 (BRI <2.85)0.70 (0.44, 1.10)0.1233
BRI Z score ≥0.12 (BRI ≥2.85)1.46 (1.27, 1.67)<0.001
Log-likelihood-ratio test0.006

Note. Adjusted for age, alcohol intake, smoking status, fatty liver, SBP, FPG, HbA1c, HDL-C, TG, and TC. BRI, body roundness index.