Abstract

Objectives: To evaluate relationships between sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) and classical anthropometric indice (BMI, waist circumference) and some other biological indicators in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes at the National Hospital of Endocrinology. Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 116 patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes at the National Hospital of Endocrinology from February 2022 to July 2022. Anthropometric indice (SAD, BMI, waist circumference), blood pressure and plasma lipids were measuared. The relationships between the SAD and the other were analyzed. Results: The male/female ratio in the study group was 1.58, mean age was 49.66 ± 12.00. The age group with the most diabetes detected was from 40 to 49 years old, accounting for 31.9%. The number of patients with blood dyscrasias accounts for a high rate of 88.8%. There are 37.4% patients with both hypertension and dyslipidemia. There is a relationship between blood pressure and cholesterol, the difference is statistically significant with p = 0.02. The proportion of overweight/obese patients (BMI ≥ 23 kg/m2) accounted for 59.05%. The percentage of patients with central obesity was 16.4%, higher in women than in men, with p = 0.004. The mean sagittal abdominal diameter in men was higher than that of men with p < 0.05. In the group of patients with or without hypertension, the mean SAD was 20.92 ± 1.88 cm and 20.30 ± 1.58 cm, respectively, different from p = 0.084. In the group of patients with or without dyslipidemia, the mean SAD was 20.56 ± 1.69 cm and 19.65 ± 1.33 cm, respectively, the difference was not statistically significant with p = 0.065. The measure of SAD has a linear correlation with BMI, waist circumference, cholesterol and triglyceride with p value < 0.01, in which the correlation between waist circumference and SAD is stronger (r = 0.662). Conclusions:  There is a strong correlation between SAD and anthropometric indice of BMI, waist circumference, and weak correlation with Cholesterol, Triglyceride, the difference is statistically significant.