Utility of traditional and non-traditional lipid indicators in the diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in a Japanese population

Table 4 The best threshold, sensitivities, specificities, and area under the curve of lipid-related parameters for the screening of NAFLD in man and women

	AUC	95%CI low	95%CI upp	Best threshold	Specificity	Sensitivity
Women
TC	0.66	0.64	0.69	5.24	0.61	0.65
HDL-C	0.72	0.70	0.75	1.46	0.69	0.67
LDL-C	0.72	0.70	0.74	3.05	0.62	0.73
TG	0.80	0.79	0.82	0.72	0.70	0.77
Non-HDL-C	0.75	0.72	0.77	3.55	0.62	0.77
RC	0.81	0.79	0.83	0.54	0.72	0.77
TC/HDL-C ratio	0.79	0.77	0.81	3.41	0.70	0.77
TG/HDL-C ratio	0.82	0.80	0.84	0.50	0.75	0.75
LDL-C/HDL-C ratio	0.78	0.76	0.80	2.24	0.77	0.70
Non-HDL-C/HDL-C ratio	0.79	0.77	0.81	2.41	0.70	0.77
RC/HDL-C ratio	0.82	0.80	0.84	0.38	0.77	0.75
Men
TC	0.62	0.61	0.63	5.21	0.59	0.59
HDL-C	0.69	0.67	0.70	1.27	0.54	0.75
LDL-C	0.65	0.64	0.67	3.39	0.67	0.56
TG	0.74	0.72	0.75	1.07	0.70	0.65
Non-HDL-C	0.69	0.67	0.70	3.85	0.60	0.70
RC	0.74	0.73	0.75	0.63	0.67	0.70
TC/HDL-C ratio	0.73	0.72	0.75	4.21	0.64	0.72
TG/HDL-C ratio	0.75	0.74	0.76	0.84	0.67	0.70
LDL-C/HDL-C ratio	0.72	0.71	0.73	2.75	0.66	0.68
Non-HDL-C/HDL-C ratio	0.73	0.72	0.75	3.21	0.64	0.72
RC/HDL-C ratio	0.75	0.74	0.77	0.51	0.65	0.73

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