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Table 4 Average area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) for the all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality models

From: Predictors of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in type 2 diabetes: Diabetes Heart Study

Data

Outcome

Model

AUC

95 % Confidence Interval

p-value

Random 1

All-cause mortality

Basic

0.697

(0.644, 0.749)

0.011

 

All-cause mortality

Full

0.759

(0.710, 0.807)

 
 

CVD mortality

Basic

0.658

(0.590, 0.726)

0.002

 

CVD mortality

Full

0.764

(0.705, 0.823)

 

Random 2

All-cause mortality

Basic

0.693

(0.638, 0.747)

0.0001

 

All-cause mortality

Full

0.777

(0.732, 0.823)

 
 

CVD mortality

Basic

0.614

(0.534, 0.694)

0.0003

 

CVD mortality

Full

0.725

(0.661, 0.789)

 

Full Cohort

All-cause mortality

Basic

0.699

(0.661, 0.737)

6.50 × 10−9

 

All-cause mortality

Full

0.788

(0.756, 0.821)

 
 

CVD mortality

Basic

0.652

(0.600, 0.704)

4.14 × 10−7

 

CVD mortality

Full

0.764

(0.721, 0.807)

 
  1. These models were derived using a two-fold cross-validation approach in each randomly selected dataset and in the full cohort. Basic models included age and sex only. Full models for all-cause mortality included age, sex, coronary artery calcified plaque, urine albumin:creatinine ratio, diabetes duration, current smoking, educational attainment, insulin use, and waist hip ratio. Full models for CVD mortality included age, sex, coronary artery calcified plaque, urine albumin:creatinine ratio, history of CVD events, and diabetes duration. P-values for comparing the predictive power of the basic model with the full model are listed