Abstract:Objective To study the relationship between anthropometric measures and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in health check-up crowd. Methods From January 2011 to April 2015, 4,186 residents who received health examination in our hospital were selected and divided into T2DM group and non-T2DM group. The single factor analysis and unconditioned multivariate logistic regression analysis were performed to investigate the relationship between anthropometric measures and prevalence of T2DM. Results 220 cases (5.3%) of T2DM were found in 4186 subjects. BMI, body fat ratio, waist circumference (WC), hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) in T2DM group were significantly higher than in non-T2DM group (P < 0.05). Results of unconditioned multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that all anthropometric measures were significantly positively related with T2DM after adjustment for age, cultural degree, drinking, smoking, family history of DM and other confounding factors (P < 0.05), and the relationship between abdominal obesity indexes like WHR and T2DM was closer. Conclusions For health check-up crowd, anthropometric measures are closely related to prevalence of T2DM, and the impact of abdominal obesity indexes like WHR is bigger, which suggests diet adjustment and exercise to control WHR can prevent T2DM.