Table 4. Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) analysis of each score for large high-risk varices.

p-value is significant for <0.05

PALBI: Platelet-Albumin-Bilirubin Score, CTP: Child-Turcotte-Pugh Score, MELD-Na: Model of End-Stage Liver Disease-Sodium Score, AUC: Area under the curve, PPV: Positive predictive value, NPV: Negative predictive value.

Score	Cut off	AUC	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	PPV	NPV	p-value
CTP	7.50	0.75	66.0	67.6	0.75	0.58	0.000
MELD-Na	10.50	0.53	64.1	38.0	0.60	0.42	0.361
PALBI	-2.27	0.71	62.2	61.1	0.70	0.53	0.000