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Table 3 Comparison of diagnostic performance of novel visceral obesity indices with old ones and traditional adiposity indices

From: Comparison of novel visceral obesity indexes with traditional obesity measurements in predicting of metabolically unhealthy nonobese phenotype in hemodialysis patients

Adiposity indices

AUC (95% CI)

p

Cut-off

Sensitivity

Specificity

Youden Index

Males

 BMI

0.58 (0.55–0.62)

< 0.001

20.69

0.65

0.51

0.16

 WC

0.60 (0.57–0.64)

< 0.001

81.5

0.59

0.62

0.21

 WHtR

0.61 (0.57–0.64)

< 0.001

0.48

0.68

0.53

0.20

 VAI

0.79 (0.76–0.82)

< 0.001

1.71

0.60

0.86

0.46

 CVAI

0.65 (0.62–0.69)

< 0.001

72.39

0.67

0.58

0.25

 ABSI

0.56 (0.53–0.60)

0.005

0.080

0.73

0.41

0.14

 LAP

0.72 (0.68–0.75)

< 0.001

24.38

0.53

0.80

0.34

Females

 BMI

0.64 (0.60–0.69)

< 0.001

20.96

0.56

0.72

0.27

 WC

0.64 (0.60–0.68)

< 0.001

72.8

0.82

0.41

0.23

 WHtR

0.62 (0.58–0.66)

< 0.001

0.47

0.83

0.38

0.21

 VAI

0.84 (0.80–0.87)

< 0.001

2.00

0.72

0.87

0.59

 CVAI

0.70 (0.66–0.74)

< 0.001

72.22

0.61

0.71

0.33

 ABSI

0.56 (0.52–0.61)

0.03

0.084

0.53

0.61

0.14

 LAP

0.78 (0.73–0.81)

< 0.001

30.08

0.60

0.84

0.43

  1. Abbreviations: BMI body mass index, WC waist circumference, WHtR waist-to-height ratio, VAI visceral adiposity index; CVAI Chinese visceral adiposity index, ABSI a body Abbreviations shape index, LAP lipid accumulation product