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. 2021 Jun 16;44(12):2831–2843. doi: 10.1007/s40618-021-01608-2

Table 4.

Results of the receiver operating characteristic curve analysis for insulin resistance indexes in the overweight group (N = 265)

Index AUC 95% CI P value Threshold Sensitivity Specificity Youden’s index
TyG 0.884 0.840–0.920 < 0.0001 8.741 0.869 0.798 0.667
F 0.880 0.819–0.926 < 0.0001 8.688 0.864 0.794 0.657
M 0.899 0.826–0.949 < 0.0001 8.754 0.927 0.803 0.730
TyG-BMI 0.831 0.781–0.874 < 0.0001 235.228 0.832 0.709 0.541
F 0.826 0.757–0.881 < 0.0001 236.525 0.773 0.772 0.545
M 0.852 0.770–0.913 < 0.0001 235.136 0.902 0.652 0.554
TyG-WC 0.775 0.720–0.824 < 0.0001 836.303 0.682 0.772 0.454
F 0.819 0.750–0.875 < 0.0001 790.917 0.773 0.750 0.523
M 0.830 0.745–0.895 < 0.0001 847.526 0.927 0.621 0.548
TyG-WHtR 0.821 0.769–0.865 < 0.0001 4.798 0.851 0.627 0.477
F 0.816 0.746–0.873 < 0.0001 4.798 0.818 0.685 0.503
M 0.839 0.755–0.903 < 0.0001 4.977 0.805 0.727 0.532
TyG-NC 0.705 0.646–0.759 < 0.0001 296.451 0.888 0.443 0.331
F 0.802 0.731–0.861 < 0.0001 296.451 0.833 0.717 0.550
M 0.803 0.715–0.873 < 0.0001 346.427 0.878 0.727 0.605
TyG-NHtR 0.775 0.720–0.824 < 0.0001 1.909 0.785 0.684 0.469
F 0.789 0.717–0.850 < 0.0001 1.909 0.682 0.815 0.497
M 0.823 0.737–0.890 < 0.0001 1.956 0.854 0.682 0.536
METS-IR 0.804 0.751–0.850 < 0.0001 38.922 0.710 0.772 0.482
F 0.829 0.761–0.884 < 0.0001 37.229 0.803 0.750 0.553
M 0.813 0.726–0.882 < 0.0001 40.535 0.707 0.803 0.510
TG/HDLc 0.855 0.807–0.895 < 0.0001 2.432 0.776 0.810 0.586
F 0.861 0.797–0.910 < 0.0001 1.871 0.879 0.728 0.607
M 0.880 0.803–0.935 < 0.0001 3.286 0.732 0.909 0.641

AUC area under the curve, CI confidence interval, F females (N = 158), M males (N = 107).