Table 3.

The baseline characteristics and ultrasound indexes in prediction of clinical events in the receiver operating characteristics analysis.

	Stroke		Atrial fibrillation
	AUC	P	AUC	P
Age	0.661	0.002	0.557	0.32
Total number of CV risk factors	0.535	0.57	0.5	0.98
LDL-C	0.571	0.2	0.527	0.62
Triglycerides	0.636	0.1	0.501	0.9
Body mass index	0.542	0.45	0.694	0.001
Body fat	0.517	0.8	0.555	0.38
Waist circumference	0.640	0.01	0.602	0.09
Waist-hip ratio	0.659	0.01	0.515	0.8
Abdominal visceral fat	0.577	0.15	0.540	0.47
Abdominal subcutaneous fat	0.526	0.6	0.6	0.09
Carotid intima–media thickness	0.591	0.13	0.538	0.52
Carotid extra–media thickness	0.540	0.5	0.503	0.95
Epicardial fat thickness	0.672	< 0.01	0.556	0.45
Pericardial fat thickness	0.513	0.8	0.520	0.7
PATIMA combined index	0.658	< 0.01	0.563	0.39

AUC — area under curve; CV — cardiovascular; LDL-C — low density lipoprotein cholesterol; PATIMA — periarterial adipose tissue intima–media adventitia