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/m^2)	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)

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.