Table 4.

The efficacy of neck circumference screening central obesity and overweight/obesity

		N	Sensitivity	Specificity	AUC	P
Central obesity
Male		6424	0.72 (0.68~ 0.75)	0.87 (0.74~ 0.94)	0.77 (0.73~ 0.80)	0.063
Female		8532	0.73 (0.65~ 0.80)	0.80 (0.71~ 0.86)	0.82 (0.79~ 0.86)	0.013
Overweight/obesity
Male		5107	0.83 (0.70~ 0.91)	0.77 (0.66~ 0.85)	0.86 (0.83~ 0.89)	0.451
Female		6385	0.82 (0.71~ 0.90)	0.84 (0.61~ 0.95)	0.89 (0.86~ 0.92)	0.295

N total sample size of each group; AUC area under receiver operating curve P: P values of Egger’s tests