Egyptian Liver Journal

Table 7 Validity (AUC, sensitivity, specificity) for BDNF to discriminate positive (n = 41) from negative psychometric tests (n = 39)

From: Diagnostic role of serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor in HCV cirrhotic patients with minimal hepatic encephalopathy with and without schistosomiasis

	AUC	p	95% C.I	Cutoff^a	Sensitivity	Specificity	PPV	NPV
BDNF (pg/ml)	0.837	< 0.001^*	0.750 – 0.925	≤ 137.88	65.85	84.62	82.0	70.0

AUC Area under a curve; p value Probability value, CI Confidence intervals, NPV Negative predictive value, PPV Positive predictive value
^*Statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05
^aCutoff was chosen according to the Youden index

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