Use of Blood Lipid Indicators as a Screening Tool of Insulin Resistance among Individuals in Low-Income Country Sides of China: A Multiethnic Region Study

Table 4

Analysis of diagnostic tests and ROC curve.

Variables		AUC	95% CI for AUC	Cut-off	Spe	Sen
Uygurs	TG (mmol/L)	0.570	(0.505, 0.635)	1.515	0.720	0.462
	TG/HDL-C	0.563	(0.497, 0.629)	1.005	0.567	0.606
	TC/HDL-C	0.504	(0.441, 0.567)	3.175	0.306	0.769
	Nomogram	0.571	(0.506, 0.635)	-1.123	0.650	0.539
Kazakhs	TG (mmol/L)	0.607	(0.533, 0.681)	1.425	0.790	0.422
	HDL-C (mmol/L)	0.585	(0.514, 0.657)	1.435	0.436	0.735
	TG/HDL-C	0.629	(0.558, 0.701)	1.230	0.835	0.398
	TC/HDL-C	0.538	(0.468, 0.609)	2.885	0.706	0.410
	LDL-C/HDL-C	0.593	(0.522, 0.664)	1.905	0.694	0.518
	1/HDL-C (1/mmol/L)	0.585	(0.514, 0.657)	0.695	0.436	0.735
	Nomogram	0.661	(0.595, 0.728)	-1.321	0.488	0.771
Hans	TG (mmol/L)	0.615	(0.520, 0.710)	1.585	0.636	0.636
	TG/HDL-C	0.617	(0.526, 0.709)	1.495	0.752	0.473
	TC/HDL-C	0.533	(0.436, 0.630)	4.095	0.824	0.364
	LDL-C/HDL-C	0.599	(0.509, 0.689)	2.595	0.867	0.327
	1/HDL-C (1/mmol/L)	0.575	(0.483, 0.667)	0.775	0.673	0.509
	HDL-C (mmol/L)	0.575	(0.483, 0.667)	1.285	0.685	0.509
	Nomogram	0.625	(0.537, 0.713)	-1.074	0.727	0.582

Notes: TG = triglyceride; TC = total cholesterol; HDL-C = high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C = low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; Sen = sensitivity; Spe = specificity.