The performance of anthropometric measures to predict diabetes mellitus and hypertension among adults in Jordan

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Area under receiver operating characteristic curve illustrating the ability of anthropometric measures to predict recently and previously diagnosed diabetes and hypertension according to gender

	Women			Men
	AUC	95% confidence interval		AUC	95% confidence interval
Recently diagnosed diabetes
Waist Circumference	0.80	0.74	0.83	0.70	0.62	0.76
Hip Circumference	0.68	0.62	0.74	0.60	0.51	0.68
Body Mass Index	0.74	0.69	0.79	0.68	0.60	0.76
Waist to Hip Ratio	0.75	0.70	0.80	0.69	0.64	0.78
Waist to Height Ratio	0.81	0.76	0.85	0.72	0.66	0.79
Previously diagnosed diabetes
Waist Circumference	0.78	0.75	0.76	0.67	0.63	0.65
Hip Circumference	0.62	0.59	0.61	0.54	0.50	0.52
Body Mass Index	0.70	0.67	0.69	0.63	0.59	0.61
Waist to Hip Ratio	0.80	0.77	0.78	0.69	0.65	0.67
Waist to Height Ratio	0.81	0.77	0.78	0.73	0.70	0.71
Recently diagnosed hypertension
Waist Circumference	0.71	0.69	0.74	0.64	0.60	0.68
Hip Circumference	0.68	0.66	0.71	0.59	0.55	0.63
Body Mass Index	0.71	0.69	0.74	0.63	0.59	0.67
Waist to Hip Ratio	0.71	0.69	0.74	0.64	0.60	0.68
Waist to Height Ratio	0.72	0.69	0.74	0.66	0.62	0.69
Previously diagnosed hypertension
Waist Circumference	0.80	0.78	0.82	0.70	0.67	0.74
Hip Circumference	0.69	0.67	0.72	0.60	0.56	0.64
Body Mass Index	0.76	0.74	0.78	0.66	0.62	0.70
Waist to Hip Ratio	0.76	0.74	0.78	0.96	0.68	0.75
Waist to Height Ratio	0.82	0.80	0.83	0.73	0.70	0.77

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