Over Time, Do Anthropometric Measures Still Predict Diabetes Incidence in Chinese Han Nationality Population from Chengdu Community?

Table 3

Areas under the ROC curve for various anthropometric measurements used to predict diabetes incidence.

Variables	Diabetes incidence after 7-8 years					P value compared to BMI	Diabetes incidence after 15 years					P value compared to BMI
	AUC; (95% CI)	P value	Sensitivity	Specificity	ΔAUC; (95% CI)		AUC; (95% CI)	P value	Sensitivity	Specificity	ΔAUC; (95% CI)
BMI	0.668; (0.631–0.703)	0.026	0.579	0.796	—	—	0.668; (0.601–0.734)	<0.001	0.581	0.697	—	—
WC	0.781; (0.748–0.811)	<0.001	0.684	0.783	0.113; (0.0291--0.197)^§	0.008	0.701; (0.641–0.760)	<0.001	0.851	0.44	0.033; (−0.018--0.084)^§	0.205
WHpR	0.769; (0.736–0.800)	<0.001	0.684	0.835	0.101; (−0.047--0.251)^§	0.183	0.691; (0.637–0.748)	<0.001	0.865	0.452	0.023; (−0.055--0.101)^§	0.558
WHtR	0.768; (0.734–0.799)	<0.001	0.684	0.783	0.099; (0.027--0.173)^§	0.007	0.715; (0.657–0.774)	<0.001	0.77	0.548	0.047; (0.003--0.091)^§	0.036

ΔAUC: difference between areas.
§Compare to BMI.