Development and evaluation of short-form version of the Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire: study a new and best brief instrument of Chinese medicine for health management

Table 10 The AUC value, sensitivity and specificity of each BC type

Cut-off value	BC type	AUC value	SE	P-value	95% CI		Sensitivity	Specificity
Cut-off value	BC type	AUC value	SE	P-value	Lower bound	Upper bound	Sensitivity	Specificity
60	GTC	0.928	0.002	0.000	0.924	0.932	0.870	0.839
40	QDC	0.912	0.002	0.000	0.908	0.916	0.824	0.846
	YaDC	0.939	0.002	0.000	0.935	0.943	0.853	0.885
	YIDC	0.911	0.002	0.000	0.906	0.915	0.773	0.884
	PDC	0.931	0.003	0.000	0.926	0.937	0.830	0.885
	DHC	0.969	0.001	0.000	0.967	0.972	0.792	0.964
	BSC	0.949	0.002	0.000	0.945	0.953	0.867	0.898
	QSC	0.934	0.002	0.000	0.930	0.938	0.954	0.742
	SDC	0.981	0.001	0.000	0.979	0.983	0.876	0.959
30	QDC	0.900	0.002	0.000	0.896	0.905	0.851	0.803
	YaDC	0.927	0.002	0.000	0.923	0.931	0.822	0.882
	YIDC	0.895	0.002	0.000	0.890	0.899	0.770	0.864
	PDC	0.905	0.002	0.000	0.901	0.910	0.824	0.834
	DHC	0.960	0.001	0.000	0.958	0.963	0.917	0.873
	BSC	0.933	0.002	0.000	0.929	0.937	0.840	0.880
	QSC	0.929	0.002	0.000	0.926	0.932	0.951	0.709
	SDC	0.969	0.001	0.000	0.966	0.971	0.915	0.908

Abbreviations: GTC: Gentleness constitution, QDC: Qi-deficiency constitution, YaDC: Yang-deficiency constitution, YiDC: Yin-deficiency constitution, PDC: phlegm-dampness constitution, DHC: damp-heat constitution, BSC: blood-stasis constitution, QSC: Qi-stagnation constitution and ISC: inherited-special constitution; BC: body constitution; AUC: the area under the ROC curve

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