Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a National Sample of Adolescent Population in the Middle East and North Africa: The CASPIAN III Study
Table 3
Calculated areas under the ROC curves for the studied risk factors in both genders.
Risk factors
Boys
Girls
Waist (cm) AUC (95% CI)
WHR AUC (95% CI)
BMI (kg/m2) AUC (95% CI)
Waist (cm) AUC (95% CI)
WHR AUC (95% CI)
BMI (kg/m2) AUC (95% CI)
Having at least 1 RF
0.58 (0.55–0.61)*
0.58 (0.55–0.61)*
0.60 (0.57–0.63)*
0.60 (0.58–0.63)*
0.55 (0.52–0.58)*
0.59 (0.56–0.62)*
Having at least 2 RFs
0.58 (0.52–0.64)*
0.59 (0.54–0.65)*
0.60 (0.54–0.66)*
0.67 (0.62–0.72)*
0.60 (0.55–0.65)*
0.66 (0.61–0.70)*
DM and DLP
0.53 (0.47–0.59)
0.54 (0.48–0.60)
0.55 (0.49–0.61)
0.58 (0.53–0.64)*
0.57 (0.52–0.63)*
0.56 (0.50–0.62)*
HTN and DLP
0.66 (0.56–0.76)*
0.68 (0.58–0.78)*
0.70 (0.61–0.79)*
0.80 (0.75–0.85)*
0.66 (0.58–0.73)*
0.79 (0.74–0.84)*
HTN and DM
0.72 (0.61–0.83)*
0.61 (0.46–0.75)
0.72 (0.57–0.86)*
0.71 (0.62–0.81)*
0.65 (0.56–0.74)*
0.77 (0.70–0.84)*
Having all 3 RFs
0.86 (0.84–0.88)
0.85 (0.83–0.87)
0.87 (0.86–0.89)
0.88 (0.78–0.97)*
0.80 (0.67–0.93)*
0.89 (0.82–0.96)*
value is significant. WHR: waist to height ratio, BMI: body mass index (kg/m2), LDL: low-density lipoprotein (mg/dL), TC: total cholesterol (mg/dL), TG: triglyceride (mg/dL), HDL: high-density lipoprotein (mg/dL), BP: blood pressure (mmHg), FBS: fasting blood glucose (mg/dL).