Plasma fatty acids and the risk of metabolic syndrome in ethnic Chinese adults in Taiwan

Table 3 Area under the ROC curves comparison with the base model

	AUC	95% CI		AUC	95% CI
Base model	0.926	0.915	0.936
Additional for:
	Continuous variables *			Quintile variables **
Saturated fat, % fat	0.926	0.915	0.937	0.927	0.916	0.937
MUFA, % fat	0.927	0.916	0.937	0.928	0.917	0.939
Transfat, % fat	0.926	0.915	0.937	0.927	0.917	0.938
N-6 fatty acids, % fat	0.927	0.916	0.938	0.928	0.917	0.938
EPA, % fat	0.926	0.916	0.937	0.927	0.916	0.938
DHA, % fat	0.926	0.916	0.937	0.926	0.915	0.937

* test for 7 models, p = 0.08
** test for 7 models, p = 0.009
The base model included: age, gender, body mass index, smoking, drinking and exercise, LDL cholesterol, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, uric acid, fasting glucose levels and total fat amount in plasma
AUC: area under the ROC curve; CI: confidence interval

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