Basic Anthropometric Measures in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients and Individually Sex- and Age-Matched Controls from the General Population

Table 3

Individual and combined anthropometric measures’ ability to discriminate MI cases and control subjects expressed as AUROC curve.

Measure	AUROC (95% CI)	Direction of association^a
Men ≤65 yr;
Weight	0.54 (0.49–0.59)	+	0.091
Height	0.56 (0.51–0.61)	−	0.010
Waist	0.50 (0.45–0.55)	+	>0.20
Hip	0.60 (0.56–0.65)	−	<0.001
BMI	0.59 (0.54–0.64)	+	0.001
Waist/hip	0.62 (0.57–0.67)	+	<0.001
Waist and hip	0.67 (0.62–0.72)	+, −	<0.001
Weight and hip	0.76 (0.72–0.80)	+, −	<0.001
BMI and hip	0.77 (0.73–0.81)	+, −	<0.001
Weight, hip, and height^c	0.79 (0.75–0.83)	+, −, −	<0.001
BMI, hip, and height^b,d	0.79 (0.75–0.83)	+, −, +	<0.001
Men ≥66 yr;
Weight	0.53 (0.48–0.59)	−	>0.20
Height	0.54 (0.49–0.59)	−	0.139
Waist	0.56 (0.51–0.61)	−	0.021
Hip	0.72 (0.67–0.76)	−	<0.001
BMI	0.52 (0.47–0.57)	−	>0.20
Waist/hip	0.61 (0.57–0.67)	+	<0.001
Waist and hip	0.77 (0.72–0.81)	+, −	<0.001
Weight and hip^b	0.82 (0.78–0.86)	+, −	<0.001
BMI and hip	0.78 (0.74–0.83)	+, −	<0.001
Weight, hip, and height^c	0.82 (0.78–0.86)	+, −, −	<0.001
BMI, hip, and height^d	0.81 (0.77–0.85)	+, −, +	<0.001
Women ≤65 yr;
Weight	0.52 (0.42–0.61)	+	>0.20
Height	0.55 (0.45–0.64)	−	>0.20
Waist	0.55 (0.45–0.64)	+	>0.20
Hip	0.54 (0.44–0.63)	−	>0.20
BMI	0.55 (0.45–0.64)	+	>0.20
Waist/hip	0.61 (0.52–0.71)	+	0.019
Waist and hip	0.62 (0.53–0.71)	+, −	0.011
Weight and hip	0.64 (0.54–0.73)	+, −	0.005
BMI and hip^b	0.68 (0.58–0.76)	+, −	<0.001
Weight, hip, and height^c	0.68 (0.59–0.77)	+, −, −	<0.001
BMI, hip, and height^d	0.68 (0.60–0.77)	+, −, +	<0.001
Women ≥66 yr;
Body weight	0.57 (0.50–0.64)	+	0.048
Height	0.52 (0.45–0.59)	+	>0.20
Waist	0.59 (0.52–0.66)	+	0.009
Hip	0.53 (0.46–0.60)	+	>0.20
BMI	0.56 (0.49–0.63)	+	0.120
Waist/hip^b	0.67 (0.61–0.74)	+	<0.001
Waist and hip	0.67 (0.61–0.74)	+, −	<0.001
Weight and hip	0.66 (0.59–0.73)	+, −	<0.001
BMI and hip	0.64 (0.58–0.71)	+, −	<0.001
Weight, hip, and height^c	0.67 (0.60–0.74)	+, −, −	<0.001
BMI, hip, and height^d	0.67 (0.60–0.74)	+, −, +	<0.001

AUROC curve values larger than or equal 0.60 are in bold. ^a“+” denotes that a larger value of the anthropometric measure increases the risk of MI, and “−” denotes that a large value decreases the risk. ^bBest subset of anthropometric measures according to Schwarz Bayesian information criterion in the individual sex/age categories. ^cBest subset of anthropometric measures according to Schwarz Bayesian information criterion over all four individual sex/age categories. ^dThe “+” direction of the height effect is only apparent. The true direction is negative since it appears in the denominator of BMI.