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 5

Receiver-operator characteristics results for predicting prehypertension.

A. Total population
Variable	Sensitivity	Specificity	Accuracy	AUC	p-value
Age	0.6842	0.3316	0.4394	0.4874	0.5267
Weight	0.6154	0.5372	0.5610	0.5626	0.0050
WC	0.5968	0.5471	0.5623	0.5531	0.0075
HC	0.2984	0.7804	0.6324	0.5235	0.2575
SM	0.4878	0.5528	0.5329	0.4989	0.9571
VF	0.6694	0.4286	0.5625	0.5479	0.0307
RMR	0.6235	0.5357	0.5626	0.5710	0.0015
%BF	0.3710	0.7084	0.6647	0.5249	0.2533
BMI	0.5242	0.5833	0.5653	0.5423	0.0586
CI	0.4899	0.5957	0.5635	0.5272	0.1340
AVI	0.5887	0.5603	0.5690	0.5508	0.0230
BAI	0.4899	0.5456	0.5285	0.5010	0.9325
B. Male
Age	0.8696	0.1591	0.4030	0.4299	0.0883
Weight	0.6522	0.5111	0.5588	0.5596	0.1601
WC	0.4348	0.7463	0.6404	0.5104	0.8154
HC	0.4928	0.6642	0.6059	0.5091	0.8374
SM	0.5882	0.5075	0.5347	0.5030	0.9425
VF	0.4638	0.6493	0.5862	0.5656	0.0057
RMR	0.6232	0.6119	0.6158	0.5837	0.0444
%BF	0.4928	0.6842	0.6188	0.5702	0.0973
BMI	0.4348	0.7481	0.6422	0.5761	0.0752
CI	0.2899	0.7704	0.6078	0.4647	0.4011
AVI	0.4638	0.7407	0.6471	0.5113	0.8085
BAI	0.4265	0.7090	0.6139	0.5290	0.5146
C. Female
Age	0.7697	0.3124	0.4465	0.5184	0.4297
Weight	0.4270	0.7319	0.6425	0.5611	0.0220
WC	0.6425	0.4988	0.5411	0.5705	0.0027
HC	0.3855	0.7418	0.6364	0.5427	0.0841
SM	0.6461	0.4518	0.5091	0.5366	0.0683
VF	0.6816	0.4155	0.4942	0.5422	0.1038
RMR	0.5281	0.6408	0.6076	0.5594	0.0253
%BF	0.5084	0.6362	0.5983	0.5504	0.0463
BMI	0.4469	0.6690	0.6036	0.5411	0.1199
CI	0.7753	0.3403	04679	0.5534	0.0137
AVI	0.6369	0.5082	0.5461	0.5665	0.0092
BAI	0.6313	0.4376	0.4950	0.5120	0.6442