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. 2023 May 25;23:352. doi: 10.1186/s12879-023-08337-2

Table 5.

Use of cut off values of individual factors and combined score for predicting unfavorable outcome of patients with CM.

Variable Cut-off
value
Pvalue AUC Sensitivity, Specificity, Accuracy,
CSF glucose ≤ 1.71 mmol/L 0.029 0.599 50.0% 76.7% 60.3%
GCS score ≤ 14 <0.001 0.622 26.0% 98.3% 53.8%
Age at onset >45 yrs 0.018 0.610 70.8% 48.3% 62.2%
ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement presented 0.003 0.574 19.8% 95.0% 48.7%
Immunocompromised condition presented <0.001 0.620 40.6% 83.3% 57.1%
Combined score >2.67 <0.001 0.815 69.8% 78.3% 73.1%

CM, cryptococcal meningitis; CSF: cerebrospinal fluid; AUC: area under the curve