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The utility of cardiometabolic indices remains unclear.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To evaluate whether anthropometric and cardiometabolic indices provide incremental value beyond age for identifying hypogonadism in men with KS.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design and setting<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Retrospective cross-sectional cohort study at a tertiary referral center.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Patients<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Five hundred eighty patients with KS were evaluated. Analyses assessing biochemical hypogonadism were restricted to untreated patients with available calculated free testosterone (cFT) concentrations (n = 328).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Main outcome measures<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Biochemical androgen deficiency was defined as cFT &amp;lt;0.220\u2005nmol\/L. Discriminative performance and incremental value of WC, LAP, TyG, and HOMA-IR were assessed using logistic regression, ROC analyses, reclassification analyses, decision curve analysis (DCA), and bootstrap validation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among untreated patients, 64.9% had biochemical hypogonadism. WC showed the highest discriminative ability (AUC 0.747) and slightly greater discrimination than cardiometabolic indices including LAP (AUC 0.704), HOMA-IR (AUC 0.681), and TyG index (AUC 0.612). In multivariable analyses adjusted for age, WC remained independently associated with hypogonadism (OR 1.05 per cm; P &amp;lt; 0.001). Age alone yielded an AUC of 0.744, which increased to 0.796 after addition of WC (P = 0.007), whereas addition of LAP resulted in only modest improvement (AUC 0.758). Addition of WC improved reclassification beyond age. DCA demonstrated consistent gains in clinical net benefit with inclusion of WC, whereas composite cardiometabolic indices provided limited additional utility.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In KS, WC provides incremental value beyond age for identifying hypogonadism, whereas composite cardiometabolic indices offer limited additional discriminatory value. 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