Table 3.

AUC with the 95% CI of LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and LDL/HDL cholesterol ratio for predicting NAFLD

Variables	AUC	95% CI lower bound	95% CI upper bound	Best threshold	Specificity	Sensitivity
HDL cholesterol	0.6335	0.6147	0.6522	1.4350	0.5734	0.6290
LDL cholesterol	0.6367	0.6168	0.6566	2.2050	0.5879	0.6314
LDL/HDL cholesterol ratio	0.6713	0.6523	0.6904	1.6623	0.7143	0.5422

Abbreviations: AUC area under the curve, CI confidence interval, HDL high-density lipoprotein, LDL low-density lipoprotein, NAFLD nonalcoholic fatty liver disease