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. 2016 Sep 1;35:30. doi: 10.1186/s41043-016-0067-8

Table 5.

Sensitivity (Sens), specificity (Spec), and distance in the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curvefor TG/HDL-C cutoffs in the Chinese Han men

Hypertension Dyslipidemia Diabetes ≥2 risk factors
TG/HDL-C cutoffs Percentile Sens Spec Distance in ROC curve Sens Spec Distance in ROC curve Sens Spec Distance in ROC curve Sens Spec Distance in ROC curve
Men % % % %
0.5 9.1 0.89 0.15 0.85 0.98 0.24 0.76 0.92 0.15 0.86 0.97 0.16 0.84
0.6 13.8 0.85 0.22 0.79 0.96 0.33 0.67 0.88 0.20 0.81 0.95 0.23 0.77
0.7 18.3 0.80 0.30 0.73 0.94 0.44 0.57 0.85 0.27 0.75 0.94 0.30 0.70
0.8 24.0 0.76 0.35 0.69 0.92 0.52 0.49 0.81 0.32 0.71 0.91 0.36 0.65
0.9 28.1 0.71 0.39 0.67 0.90 0.59 0.42 0.77 0.37 0.67 0.89 0.41 0.60
1.0 32.1 0.67 0.44 0.65 0.88 0.66 0.37 0.74 0.42 0.64 0.86 0.46 0.56
1.1 36.6 0.63 0.49 0.64 0.85 0.72 0.32 0.70 0.46 0.62 0.83 0.51 0.52
1.2 40.0 0.59 0.52 0.63 0.82 0.77 0.29 0.66 0.50 0.61 0.80 0.55 0.49
1.3 43.9 0.55 0.56 0.63 0.79 0.82 0.28 0.62 0.54 0.60 0.77 0.60 0.47
1.4 47.5 0.50 0.60 0.64 0.74 0.85 0.30 0.57 0.58 0.60 0.71 0.64 0.46
1.5 51.4 0.46 0.64 0.65 0.69 0.88 0.34 0.53 0.62 0.60 0.67 0.67 0.47
1.6 55.1 0.42 0.67 0.67 0.64 0.91 0.37 0.49 0.66 0.61 0.63 0.70 0.48
1.7 57.9 0.39 0.69 0.68 0.61 0.92 0.40 0.47 0.68 0.62 0.59 0.73 0.49
1.8 60.8 0.35 0.72 0.71 0.56 0.95 0.44 0.43 0.72 0.64 0.54 0.76 0.52
1.9 63.6 0.32 0.73 0.73 0.53 0.96 0.48 0.40 0.74 0.66 0.50 0.78 0.55
2.0 65.5 0.31 0.74 0.74 0.50 0.96 0.50 0.38 0.75 0.66 0.48 0.79 0.56

The cutoff for dyslipidemia and hypertension was 1.3 and for diabetes and ≥2 risk factors was 1.4