Table 5.

Area under curve (AUC) for detection of overweight, general and abdominal obesity based on the neck circumference in Iranian children and adolescents by sex and age: the CASPIAN-IV study

Age (year) sex group	Overweight			General obesity			Abdominal obesity
	AUC (95% CI)	SE	p Value	AUC (95% CI)	SE	p Value	AUC (95% CI)	SE	p Value
Age group—boys
7	0.774	0.024	<0.001	0.788	0.037	<0.001	0.682	0.026	<0.001
8	0.739	0.021	<0.001	0.715	0.031	<0.001	0.719	0.020	<0.001
9	0.713	0.030	<0.001	0.804	0.036	<0.001	0.745	0.025	<0.001
10	0.753	0.024	<0.001	0.817	0.034	<0.001	0.799	0.024	<0.001
11	0.762	0.018	<0.001	0.908	0.019	<0.001	0.838	0.018	<0.001
12	0.764	0.018	<0.001	0.866	0.020	<0.001	0.830	0.015	<0.001
13	0.761	0.019	<0.001	0.824	0.028	<0.001	0.790	0.017	<0.001
14	0.691	0.030	<0.001	0.787	0.038	<0.001	0.730	0.022	<0.001
15	0.714	0.023	<0.001	0.853	0.030	<0.001	0.785	0.021	<0.001
16	0.761	0.018	<0.001	0.866	0.028	<0.001	0.801	0.018	<0.001
17	0.676	0.026	<0.001	0.855	0.026	<0.001	0.779	0.021	<0.001
18	0.681	0.035	<0.001	0.824	0.037	<0.001	0.768	0.024	<0.001
7–10	0.730	0.013	<0.001	0.763	0.018	<0.001	0.718	0.012	<0.001
10–14	0.725	0.010	<0.001	0.837	0.012	<0.001	0.796	0.009	<0.001
14–18	0.693	0.012	<0.001	0.843	0.015	<0.001	0.772	0.011	<0.001
Age group—girls
7	0.627	0.040	<0.001	0.848	0.038	<0.001	0.632	0.036	<0.001
8	0.676	0.033	<0.001	0.722	0.045	<0.001	0.751	0.025	<0.001
9	0.796	0.018	<0.001	0.814	0.037	<0.001	0.793	0.021	<0.001
10	0.756	0.024	<0.001	0.889	0.023	<0.001	0.802	0.021	<0.001
11	0.781	0.023	<0.001	0.850	0.038	<0.001	0.791	0.025	<0.001
12	0.734	0.024	<0.001	0.784	0.039	<0.001	0.743	0.023	<0.001
13	0.722	0.021	<0.001	0.802	0.026	<0.001	0.763	0.020	<0.001
14	0.763	0.022	<0.001	0.852	0.022	<0.001	0.778	0.021	<0.001
15	0.741	0.018	<0.001	0.797	0.035	<0.001	0.755	0.020	<0.001
16	0.749	0.018	<0.001	0.895	0.020	<0.001	0.802	0.018	<0.001
17	0.773	0.021	<0.001	0.782	0.047	<0.001	0.761	0.022	<0.001
18	0.755	0.025	<0.001	0.770	0.042	<0.001	0.728	0.023	<0.001
7–10	0.731	0.014	<0.001	0.803	0.020	<0.001	0.753	0.013	<0.001
10–14	0.729	0.011	<0.001	0.822	0.015	<0.001	0.759	0.011	<0.001
1–18	0.748	0.010	<0.001	0.816	0.018	<0.001	0.766	0.010	<0.001