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To identify the cutoff point of the conicity index in renal individuals undergoing hemodialysis.

Observational, cross-sectional study with 953 individuals undergoing hemodialysis between February and September 2019 in a metropolitan region in southeastern Brazil. The conicity index (CI) was calculated using the following equation: waist circumference/0.109 x √Weight/Height. To determine the cut-off point, the analysis of latent classes was used by cross-validation through a latent variable (VL) of abdominal obesity. The LV was defined using the pattern of responses of the observed anthropometric variables considering the presence and absence of abdominal obesity: waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio and body shape index. The information criteria: Akaike information criterion (AIC), Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and entropy indicated the most adequate model of two latent classes …