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. 2021 Mar 19;13(3):1002. doi: 10.3390/nu13031002

Table 4.

Receiver Operating Characteristic curves and appropriate cutoff of anthropometric indices for predicting prediabetes according to sex distribution.

Male Subjects Cutoff Sensitivity Specificity AUROC 95% CI p
BMI (Kg/m2) 28.2 0.68 0.51 0.62 0.60 to 0.64 <0.001
CUN-BAE (%) 29.9 0.66 0.53 0.63 0.61 to 0.65 <0.001
Deurenberg (%) 31.5 0.59 0.60 0.63 0.61 to 0.65 <0.001
WC (cm) 100 0.65 0.53 0.62 0.60 to 0.64 <0.001
Conicity index 1.33 0.62 0.49 0.58 0.56 to 0.60 <0.001
WHR 0.59 0.65 0.54 0.63 0.61 to 0.65 <0.001
Bonora (cm2) 186.5 0.65 0.53 0.62 0.60 to 0.64 <0.001
Body roundness index 5.29 0.62 0.57 0.63 0.61 to 0.65 <0.001
A body shape index 0.08 0.50 0.54 0.51 0.49 to 0.53 0.228
Neck circumference (cm) 40.8 0.63 0.55 0.61 0.59 to 0.63 <0.001
Female Subjects
BMI (Kg/m2) 28.6 0.58 0.60 0.62 0.60 to 0.64 <0.001
CUN-BAE (%) 43.5 0.51 0.67 0.63 0.61 to 0.64 <0.001
Deurenberg (%) 40.8 0.71 0.47 0.63 0.61 to 0.65 <0.001
WC (cm) 101.5 0.51 0.64 0.60 0.59 to 0.62 <0.001
Conicity index 1.35 0.59 0.48 0.55 0.53 to 0.57 <0.001
WHR 0.62 0.62 0.54 0.62 0.60 to 0.63 <0.001
Bonora (cm2) 179.0 0.67 0.51 0.62 0.60 to 0.63 <0.001
Body roundness index 6.10 0.59 0.57 0.62 0.60 to 0.63 <0.001
A body shape index 0.08 0.58 0.39 0.49 0.47 to 0.51 0.179
Neck circumference (cm) 35.3 0.55 0.63 0.62 0.60 to 0.64 <0.001

AUROC: area under the receiver operating characteristic; BMI: body mass index; WC: waist circumference; WHR: waist to height ratio; CUN-BAE: Clínica Universidad de Navarra-Body Adiposity Estimator.