Comparative Assessment of the Utility of Anthropometric and Bioelectrical Impedance Indices as Potential Predictors of Hypertension within a Ghanaian Adult Population: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 4

Receiver-operator characteristics results for predicting hypertension.

A. Total population
Variable	Sensitivity	Specificity	Accuracy	AUC	p-value
Age	0.6482	0.6883	0.6757	0.7153	<0.0001
Weight	0.5709	0.5871	0.5820	0.5885	<0.0001
WC	0.5630	0.6661	0.6338	0.6325	<0.0001
HC	0.5099	0.6613	0.6139	0.6029	<0.0001
SM	0.2988	0.8628	0.6870	0.5756	0.0003
VF	0.3773	0.8579	0.7079	0.6572	<0.0001
RMR	0.5259	0.5935	0.5725	0.5644	0.0034
%BF	0.2698	0.8613	0.6766	0.5616	0.0049
BMI	0.3858	0.7742	0.6527	0.6009	<0.0001
CI	0.6378	0.5314	0.5647	0.6105	<0.0001
AVI	0.5630	0.6613	0.6305	0.6315	<0.0001
BAI	0.6680	0.4846	0.5422	0.6000	<0.0001
B. Male
Age	0.8116	0.6285	0.6915	0.7500	<0.0001
Weight	0.2857	0.8806	0.6765	0.5531	0.2358
WC	0.5286	0.6767	0.6256	0.6389	0.0002
HC	0.2857	0.8797	0.6749	0.5708	0.0847
SM	0.7971	0.5263	0.6188	0.6963	<0.0001
VF	0.6232	0.6045	0.6108	0.6347	<0.0001
RMR	0.2029	0.9254	0.6798	0.4692	0.5038
%BF	0.6087	0.5564	0.5743	0.5908	0.0317
BMI	0.4714	0.6866	0.6127	0.5637	0.1396
CI	0.6571	0.5672	0.5980	0.6334	0.0004
AVI	0.5714	0.6642	0.6324	0.6345	0.0009
BAI	0.8143	0.3636	0.5198	0.5787	0.0623
C. Female
Age	0.6413	0.6690	0.6606	0.6980	<0.0001
Weight	0.5761	0.6052	0.5964	0.5993	<0.0001
WC	0.6250	0.6250	0.6250	0.6418	<0.0001
HC	0.7322	0.4621	0.5438	0.6222	<0.0001
SM	0.3626	08290	0.6882	0.5912	<0.0001
VF	0.3934	0.8649	0.7123	0.6671	<0.0001
RMR	0.4560	0.7227	0.6424	0.5911	0.0005
%BF	0.3388	0.8223	0.6760	0.5832	0.0009
BMI	0.5163	0.6651	0.6201	0.6179	<0.0001
CI	0.7065	0.4846	0.5519	0.6150	<0.0001
AVI	0.6196	0.6274	0.6250	0.6416	<0.0001
BAI	0.8361	0.3729	0.5132	0.6430	<0.0001