Table 4.

Sensitivity, specificity, positive (PPV) and negative predictive values (NPV) and the likelihood ratio (LR) for each index for identifying MetS. See the text for an explanation of the results.

	Females						Males
	Sensitivity	Specificity	PPV	NPV	LR+	LR−	Sensitivity	Specificity	PPV	NPV	LR+	LR−
BMI	0.61	0.78	0.65	0.74	2.77	0.50	0.88	0.59	0.52	0.91	2.14	0.20
TMI	0.71	0.66	0.59	0.77	2.09	0.43	0.94	0.56	0.52	0.95	2.13	0.11
BMFI	0.96	0.44	0.54	0.95	1.72	0.08	0.88	0.62	0.54	0.91	2.31	0.19
FMI	0.96	0.39	0.52	0.94	1.58	0.09	0.88	0.65	0.56	0.92	2.50	0.18
FFMI	0.57	0.90	0.80	0.76	5.86	0.47	0.88	0.53	0.48	0.90	1.88	0.22
WC	0.89	0.61	0.61	0.89	2.29	0.18	0.82	0.56	0.48	0.86	1.87	0.32
WtHR	0.86	0.66	0.63	0.87	2.51	0.22	0.76	0.65	0.52	0.85	2.17	0.36