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Table 6 The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve and the cut-off values of the TG, FPG, and TyG index for identifying metabolic syndrome

From: The discriminative ability of the triglyceride-glucose index to identify metabolic syndrome among adults of the northern Sri Lankan population

Variable

AUC (95% CI)

Cut-off value

Sensitivity %

Specificity %

TG

0.874 (0.844, 0.904)

1.34

80.40

77.40

FPG

0.689 (0.642, 0.736)

5.03

67.20

61.60

TyG index:

 Both

0.897 (0.870, 0.924)

8.60

84.30

81.10

 Male

0.881 (0.830, 0.932)

8.76

80.70

79.70

 Female

0.914 (0.884, 0.944)

8.48

89.10

79.98

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BMC Endocrine Disorders

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