Table 3.
Waist thresholds | Sensitivity | Specificity | Youden index | Distancea |
---|---|---|---|---|
Men | ||||
97.0 cm | 16.2 % | 94.6 % | 0.108 | 0.840 |
95.0 cm | 18.7 % | 93.5 % | 0.122 | 0.816 |
90.0 cm | 35.0 % | 83.5 % | 0.185 | 0.671 |
88.0 cm | 49.1 % | 73.0 % | 0.221 | 0.576 |
85.0 cm | 64.0 % | 59.6 % | 0.235 | 0.541 |
83.0 cm | 68.6 % | 54.2 % | 0.228 | 0.555 |
80.0 cm | 81.4 % | 38.8 % | 0.202 | 0.640 |
Women | ||||
90.0 cm | 29.3 % | 94.0 % | 0.234 | 0.709 |
87.0 cm | 38.8 % | 90.0 % | 0.287 | 0.621 |
84.0 cm | 50.6 % | 84.0 % | 0.346 | 0.519 |
83.0 cm | 55.5 % | 79.4 % | 0.349 | 0.490 |
80.0 cm | 62.8 % | 70.7 % | 0.334 | 0.474 |
78.0 cm | 64.9 % | 67.0 % | 0.319 | 0.482 |
75.0 cm | 75.0 % | 54.6 % | 0.296 | 0.518 |
aDistance, the distance from a point on the curve to the point (0, 1)