TABLE 4.

Results of receiver operating characteristic curve analyses for the utility of visceral adipose tissue (cm²), BMI (kg/m²), waist circumference (cm), total fat mass (kg), and percentage of body fat in the prediction of the upper quintile of the continuous metabolic syndrome score¹

	AUC (95% CI)	Threshold	Sensitivity	Specificity
White women
Visceral adipose tissue	0.785 (0.743, 0.823)a	141.0	0.674	0.805
BMI	0.721 (0.676, 0.763)b	31.1	0.616	0.732
Waist circumference	0.781 (0.739, 0.820)a	95.1	0.663	0.776
Total fat mass	0.701 (0.655, 0.744)b	34.3	0.593	0.752
Percentage of body fat	0.631 (0.583, 0.677)c	40.3	0.605	0.624
African American women
Visceral adipose tissue	0.696 (0.641, 0.746)a,b	97.1	0.694	0.667
BMI	0.665 (0.609, 0.717)a	30.2	0.742	0.526
Waist circumference	0.726 (0.673, 0.775)b	95.6	0.710	0.715
Total fat mass	0.663 (0.607, 0.715)a	31.1	0.726	0.558
Percentage of body fat	0.605 (0.548, 0.659)c	40.2	0.532	0.691
White men
Visceral adipose tissue	0.734 (0.689, 0.777)a	140.2	0.778	0.609
BMI	0.646 (0.597, 0.693)b	29.1	0.778	0.474
Waist circumference	0.680 (0.633, 0.726)b	95.6	0.901	0.388
Total fat mass	0.644 (0.595, 0.691)c	23.3	0.815	0.462
Percentage of body fat	0.616 (0.567, 0.663)d	26.0	0.827	0.462
African American men
Visceral adipose tissue	0.789 (0.696, 0.865)a	81.9	0.900	0.575
BMI	0.814 (0.724, 0.885)a	31.3	0.750	0.775
Waist circumference	0.799 (0.707, 0.872)a	101.5	0.750	0.775
Total fat mass	0.791 (0.698, 0.866)a	25.5	0.750	0.800
Percentage of body fat	0.788 (0.694, 0.863)a	26.6	0.700	0.825
Total sample
Visceral adipose tissue	0.734 (0.708, 0.758)a	111.5	0.751	0.610
BMI	0.689 (0.663, 0.715)b	31.1	0.614	0.666
Waist circumference	0.726 (0.700, 0.750)a	95.1	0.767	0.616
Total fat mass	0.668 (0.641, 0.694)c	31.1	0.590	0.670
Percentage of body fat	0.586 (0.558, 0.613)d	26.6	0.900	0.253

¹Groups with different superscript letters were significantly different from each other within sex-by-race groups on the basis of pairwise comparisons by using the method of DeLong et al (31).