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. 2015 Apr 16;10(4):e0122985. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122985

Table 3. Adjusted Area Under Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve for the Various Anthropometric Indices and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors.

Body Mass Index Waist Circumference Waist-Hip Ratio Waist-Height Ratio Body Adiposity Index
Diabetes mellitus 0.871 (0.841–0.900) 0.874 (0.842–0.907) 0.862 (0.824–0.900) 0.871 (0.838–0.904) 0.849 (0.814–0.884)
Hypertension 0.862 (0.840–0.883) 0.854 (0.831–0.876) 0.834 (0.809–0.858) 0.854 (0.832–0.877) 0.846 (0.823–0.869)
High Total Cholesterol 0.766 (0.739–0.792) 0.771 (0.745–0.797) 0.768 (0.741–0.794) 0.770 (0.744–0.796) 0.759 (0.732–0.786)
High Triglyceride 0.823 (0.779–0.866) 0.826 (0.782–0.869) 0.775 (0.726–0.825) 0.822 (0.780–0.864) 0.788 (0.742–0.834)
Low HDL-Cholesterol 0.853 (0.816–0.891) 0.844 (0.805–0.883) 0.810 (0.765–0.854) 0.844 (0.805–0.882) 0.827 (0.787–0.868)
High LDL-Cholesterol 0.766 (0.739–0.794) 0.770 (0.742–0.797) 0.766 (0.738–0.794) 0.770 (0.743–0.798) 0.759 (0.731–0.787)

Anthropometric measure with the highest AUC value in bold.

HDL, high-density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein.