Research Article
Ability of Different Measures of Adiposity to Identify High Metabolic Risk in Adolescents
Table 2
Cut-off values, sensitivity, and specificity for the association of different measures of adiposity with metabolic risk score by sex.
| | All | Girls | Boys |
| BMI | | | | BMI cut-off (kg/m2) | | | | Sensitivity (%) | 79.4 | 76.3 | 66.7 | Specificity (%) | 72.8 | 71.8 | 94.7 | AUC | 0.807 (0.770–0.840) | 0.772 (0.720–0.818) | 0.852 (0.798–0.896) | | | |
| WC | | | | WC cut-off (cm) | | | | Sensitivity (%) | 66.2 | 65.8 | 60.0 | Specificity (%) | 79.7 | 75.3 | 94.7 | AUC | 0.760 (0.721–0.796) | 0.714 (0.659–0.764) | 0.827 (0.770–0.874), | | | |
| WHtR | | | | WHtR cut-off | | | | Sensitivity (%) | 61.8 | 60.5 | 80.0 | Specificity (%) | 89.5 | 90.0 | 80.0 | AUC | 0.794 (0.756–0.828) | 0.767 (0.715–0.814) | 0.834 (0.778– 0.881), | | | |
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AUC: area under the curve; 95% CI in parentheses; ‡AUC significantly different from WC (); †AUC significantly different from WHtR ().
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