Table 3.

Areas under the ROC by anthropometric indices for cardio-metabolic risk factors (n=4201)

	NC	WC	BMI	WHpR
	AUC (95% CI)	AUC (95% CI)	AUC (95% CI)	AUC (95% CI)
Male (n=2508)
MS-rf	0.683 (0.662-0.705)	0.715 (0.695-0.736)	0.699 (0.678-0.720)	0.716 (0.696-0.736)
High BP	0.635 (0.613-0.657)	0.652 (0.630-0.674)	0.649 (0.627-0.671)	0.650 (0.628-0.672)
Increased TG	0.659 (0.637-0.681)	0.693 (0.672-0.699)	0.678 (0.657-0.699)	0.689 (0.669-0.710)
Decreased HDL-C	0.618 (0.593-0.643)	0.640 (0.616-0.664)	0.631 (0.607-0.655)	0.638 (0.614-0.662)
Increased FBG	0.624 (0.592-0.656)	0.661 (0.631-0.691)	0.617 (0.586-0.649)	0.703 (0.674-0.732)
Increased LDL-C	0.558 (0.536-0.581)	0.580 (0.557-0.602)	0.574 (0.552-0.597)	0.578 (0.555-0.600)
Female (n=1693)
MS-rf	0.703 (0.672-0.735)	0.764 (0.738-0.791)	0.723 (0.693-0.752)	0.766 (0.740-0.792)
High BP	0.659 (0.629-0.689)	0.733 (0.706-0.760)	0.699 (0.670-0.728)	0.731 (0.705-0.758)
Increased TG	0.678 (0.645-0.712)	0.734 (0.704-0.763)	0.691 (0.659-0.723)	0.738 (0.709-0.768)
Decreased HDL-C	0.641 (0.612-0.670)	0.665 (0.637-0.692)	0.640 (0.612-0.669)	0.667 (0.639-0.695)
Increased FBG	0.646 (0.595-0.697)	0.715 (0.672-0.758)	0.670 (0.624-0.716)	0.706 (0.662-0.750)
Increased LDL-C	0.596 (0.569-0.623)	0.651 (0.625-0.677)	0.638 (0.612-0.665)	0.641 (0.615-0.667)

Abbreviations: ROC, receiver operating characteristic; AUC, area under the curve; CI, confidence interval.