Table 5.

TG/HDL-C vs. metabolic syndrome and the number of metabolic syndrome components for predicting ischemic heart disease.

	Pairwise comparison of AUC			Classifying ability for ischemic heart disease
	Difference	95% CI	P -value	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	AUC	P -value
TG/HDL-C vs. metabolic syndrome	0.059	0.031 to 0.087	<0.001
TG/HDL-C vs. the number of metabolic syndrome components	0.001	−0.025 to 0.027	0.929
The number of metabolic syndrome components vs. metabolic syndrome	0.064	0.037 to 0.083	<0.001
TG/HDL-C				64.2	52.1	0.607	<0.001
Metabolic syndrome				21.5	88.1	0.548	<0.001
The number of metabolic syndrome components				79.1	37.4	0.608	<0.001

AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve.