Usefulness of waist-to-height ratio in screening incident hypertension among Japanese community-dwelling middle-aged and elderly individuals

Table 3 The difference among the AUC values of baseline indices of obesity in the cross-sectional and cohort studies.

Cross-sectional study	N = 1727	AUC (95% CI)	P-value*
Men	N = 768
WHtR - WHpR		0.049 (0.025–0.072)	< 0.001
WHtR - BMI		0.202 (0.003–0.050)	0.027
WHpR - BMI		−0.022 (−0.058–0.014)	0.228
Women	N = 959
WHtR - WHpR		0.057 (0.036–0.077)	< 0.001
WHtR - BMI		0.014 (−0.008–0.036)	0.202
WHpR - BMI		−0.042 (− 0.077−0.008)	0.016
Cohort study	N = 419	AUC (95% CI)	P-value*
Men	N = 164
WHtR - WHpR		0.013 (−0.053–0.079)	0.702
WHtR - BMI		0.034 (−0.030–0.099)	0.297
WHpR - BMI		0.021 (−0.076–0.119)	0.667
Women	N = 255
WHtR - WHpR		0.040 (−0.009–0.089)	0.107
WHtR - BMI		−0.012 (− 0.064–0.040)	0.648
WHpR - BMI		−0.052 (− 0.133–0.029)	0.206

AUC area under the curve. * P-value: ROC analysis. Bold values indicate significance (p < 0.05)

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