Table 3.

The predictive performance of abdominal obesity indices for incident CVD among postmenopausal women

Indices	C-statistic (95% CI)	P-value	P for comparison
CVAI	0.632 (0.576, 0.688)	< 0.001	Ref.
LAP	0.573 (0.519, 0.627)	0.008	< 0.001
WC	0.580 (0.526, 0.634)	0.004	0.003
WHR	0.538 (0481, 0.595)	0.148	< 0.001
VAI	0.540 (0.484, 0.596)	0.168	< 0.001

p values in bold are < 0.05

CVD cardiovascular disease, CI confidence interval, CVAI Chinese visceral adiposity index, Ref. reference, LAP lipid accumulation product, WC waist circumference, WHR waist–hip ratio, VAI visceral adiposity index