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Table 4 Area under the curve for discriminative ability of elevated blood pressure by adiposity measures among participants (N = 367)

From: Discriminative ability of adiposity measures for elevated blood pressure among adolescents in a resource-constrained setting in northeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional analysis

Variable

Boys

Girls

Overall

AUCa (95% CI)

AUCa (95% CI)

AUCa (95% CI)

Body Mass Index

0.770 (0.67, 0.87)

0.790 (0.70, 0.90)

0.786 (0.71, 0.86)

Waist circumference

0.760 (0.66, 0.88)

0.780 (0.70, 0.87)

0.780 (0.70, 0.85)

Waist-to-Height Ratio

0.750 (0.64, 0.87)

0.770 (0.67, 0.87)

0.761 (0.69, 0.84)

Combined Measures

0.779 (0.67, 0.89)

0.798 (0.71, 0.90)

0.800 (0.74, 0.86)

  1. aAUC Area Under the Curve