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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Digit Health. 2020 Mar 2;2(4):e192–e200. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30025-X

Table 2.

Diagnostic Performance for Predicting Overall Survival

Diagnostic Performance for Predicting Death
2-year AUROC (n=7849) 5-year AUROC (n=6891) 10-year AUROC (n=4029) Cox PH Model Concordance
Clinical Parameters
FRS 0.700 0.688 0.693 0.681
BMI 0.546 0.499 0.533 0.520
Automated CT Biomarkers
Univariate
AoCa (Ag) 0.746 0.743* 0.746* 0.735
Muscle HU 0.736 0.721 0.717 0.700
V/S Fat Ratio 0.685 0.661 0.656 0.648
Liver HU 0.644 0.619 0.628 0.602
L1 HU 0.627 0.646 0.640 0.637
Multivariate**
AoCa + Muscle 0.780 0.768 0.768 0.772
AoCa + Muscle + Liver 0.811 0.782 0.777 0.778
AoCa + Muscle + Liver + V/S 0.817 0.789 0.780 0.780
AoCa + FRS° 0.774 0.744 0.746 0.733
AoCa+Muscle+Liver+V/S+FRS° 0.847 0.796 0.792 0.778

Cox PH model = Cox proportional hazards model; AUROC = area under the ROC curve; FRS = Framingham Risk Score; BMI = body mass index; AoCa = aortic calcification; Ag = Agatston score; HU = Hounsfield units; V/S = visceral-to-subcutaneous

*

p<0.05 compared with FRS performance

**

p<0.05 compared with FRS performance

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No significant improvement compared with CT-based performance without FRS (p=0.509–0.965 for AoCa comparison and p=0.406–0.806 for AoCa+Muscle+Liver+V/S comparison)