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/m^2); AUC (95% CI)	Waist (cm); AUC (95% CI)	WHR; AUC (95% CI)	BMI (kg/m^2); 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)*

 ^∗𝑃 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).