Research Article
The TG/HDL-C Ratio Might Be a Surrogate for Insulin Resistance in Chinese Nonobese Women
Table 3
Area under receiver operating characteristic curves for potential markers of insulin resistance.
| Predicting variables | Male (AROC, 95% CI) | Female (AROC, 95% CI) |
| Clinical variables | | | WC (cm) | 0.793 (0.726–0.861) | 0.766 (0.700–0.831) | HC (cm) | 0.726 (0.649–0.804) | 0.714 (0.641–0.787) | BMI (kg/m2) | 0.746 (0.671–0.821) | 0.772 (0.707–0.837) | Waist/hip | 0.752 (0.678–0.827) | 0.723 (0.655–0.791) | Biological variables | | | TC (mmol/L) | 0.489 (0.403–0.575) | 0.411 (0.324–0.498) | HDL-C (mmol/L) | 0.333 (0.252–0.414) | 0.305 (0.229–0.382) | LDL-C (mmol/L) | 0.553 (0.471–0.635) | 0.534 (0.447–0.621) | TC/HDL-C | 0.651 (0.569–0.734) | 0.623 (0.545–0.702) | hsCRP (mg/L) | 0.601 (0.514–0.689) | 0.688 (0.612–0.764) |
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BMI: body mass index; WC: waist circumference; HC: hip circumference; TC: total cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio; hsCRP: high sensitivity creactive protein; AROC: area under receiver operating characteristic curves; CI: confidence interval.
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