Association of remnant cholesterol with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a general population-based study

Table 5 Areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves for each lipid parameters in identifying nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

	AUC	DeLong test P-value	95%CI low	95%CI upp	Best threshold	Specificity	Sensitivity
Women
HDL-C, mmol/L	0.72	< 0.0001	0.70	0.75	1.46	0.6888	0.6674
TC, mmol/L	0.66	< 0.0001	0.64	0.69	5.24	0.6136	0.6527
Non-HDL-C, mmol/L	0.75	< 0.0001	0.72	0.77	3.55	0.6152	0.7741
LDL-C, mmol/L	0.72	< 0.0001	0.70	0.74	3.05	0.6180	0.7322
RC, mmol/L	0.81		0.79	0.83	0.54	0.7163	0.7699
TG, mmol/L	0.80	0.7978	0.79	0.82	0.72	0.7047	0.7741
Men
HDL-C, mmol/L	0.69	< 0.0001	0.67	0.70	1.27	0.5367	0.7467
TC, mmol/L	0.62	< 0.0001	0.61	0.63	5.21	0.5927	0.5934
Non-HDL-C, mmol/L	0.69	< 0.0001	0.67	0.70	3.85	0.5909	0.6964
LDL-C, mmol/L	0.65	< 0.0001	0.64	0.67	3.39	0.6702	0.5623
RC, mmol/L	0.74		0.73	0.75	0.63	0.6722	0.6979
TG, mmol/L	0.73	0.0418	0.72	0.75	1.07	0.6997	0.6530

Abbreviations: AUC area under the curve, CI confidence interval; other abbreviations as in Table 1
The DeLong test was used to compare the AUC of RC with other lipid parameters in men and women

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