Identification of insulin resistance in Asian Indian adolescents: classification and regression tree (CART) and logistic regression based classification rules

• Published in: Clinical endocrinology (Oxford) Vol. 70; no. 5; pp. 717 - 724
• Main Authors: Goel, Ruchika, Misra, Anoop, Kondal, Dimple, Pandey, Ravindra M., Vikram, Naval K., Wasir, Jasjeet S., Dhingra, Vibha, Luthra, Kalpana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2009; Blackwell
• Subjects: Adiposity; Adolescent; Adult; Asian Continental Ancestry Group; Biological and medical sciences; Classification - methods; Cross-Sectional Studies; Decision Trees; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - etiology; Endocrinopathies; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; India; Insulin Resistance - ethnology; Logistic Models; Male; Medical sciences; Regression Analysis; Risk Factors; ROC Curve; Skinfold Thickness; Vertebrates: endocrinology; Young Adult; Asia; India; Endocrinopathy; Human; Pancreatic hormone; Asiatic; Metabolic diseases; Identification; Insulin; Logistic regression; Target tissue resistance; Adolescent; Classification; Tree; Indian; Insulin resistance; Endocrinology

Summary Objective  Biochemical measures for assessment of insulin resistance are not cost‐effective in resource‐constrained developing countries. Using classification and regression tree (CART) and multivariate logistic regression, we aimed to develop simple predictive decision models based on routi...