Elevated waist-to-hip ratio, as an abdominal obesity index, predicts the risk of diabetic kidney injury

Figure 2 Waist-to-hip ratio not visceral fat area to subcutaneous fat area ratio level was elevated following severity of kidney diseases. A: Level of visceral fat area to subcutaneous fat area ratio; B: The level of waist-to-hip ratio. ^bP < 0.01. ^cP < 0.001. NAU: Normal albuminuria; MAU: Microalbuminuria; CAU: Clinical proteinuria; WHR: Waist-to-hip ratio; VSR: Visceral fat area to subcutaneous fat area ratio.