Research Article
Lipid Accumulation Product Is More Related to Insulin Resistance than the Visceral Adiposity Index in the Maracaibo City Population, Venezuela
Table 2
Diagnostic parameters of LAP and VAI for insulin resistance prediction (Maracaibo, Venezuela).
| | All | Females | Males | LAP | VAI | LAP | VAI | LAP | VAI |
| Cutoff points | 37.7 | 1.7 | 33.4 | 1.6 | 41.7 | 1.7 | AUC (95% CI) | 0.689 (0.665–0.714) | 0.645 (0.619–0.670) | 0.621 (0.584–0.657) | 0.587 (0.550–0.624) | 0.759 (0.728–0.791) | 0.704 (0.670–0.738) | Sensitivity (%) | 64.7 | 60.5 | 60.3 | 60.8 | 70.1 | 66.4 | Specificity (%) | 64.3 | 60.1 | 60.3 | 52.5 | 68.0 | 63.0 | Youden index | 0.29 | 0.39 | 0.21 | 0.13 | 0.38 | 0.29 | Distance to ROC | 0.50 | 0.56 | 0.56 | 0.62 | 0.44 | 0.49 |
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LAP: lipid accumulation product; VAI: visceral adiposity index. Delong’s test between gender: . |