background: the study was conducted to examine the comparability of the bmi and gallagher’s classification in diagnosing obesity based on the cutoff points of the gold standards and to estimate suitable cutoff points for detecting obesity among iranians. methods: the cross-sectional study was comparative in nature. the sample consisted of 20,163 adults. the bioelectrical impedance analysis (bia...

objective: diabetes is one of the most common metabolic diseases. earlier diagnosis of diabetes and treatment of hyperglycemia and related metabolic abnormalities is of vital importance. diagnosis of diabetes via proper interpretation of the diabetes data is an important classification problem. classification systems help the clinicians to predict the risk factors that cause the diabetes or pre...