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. 2025 May 9;13:1535381. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1535381

Table 5.

Detection performance of different screening strategies for Down syndrome.

Strategy 1 Strategy 2 Strategy 3 Strategy 4 Strategy 5 Strategy 6 Strategy 7 Strategy 8
True positive 163 83 130 129 128 135 134 142
False positive 35 11,218 33,860 11,245 47 7,313 63 0
True negative 140,062 128,879 106,237 128,852 140,050 132,784 140,034 140,092
False negative 5 85 38 39 40 33 34 31
Prenatal diagnosis 198 11,031 33,990 11,374 175 7,448 197 43,573
Termination of pregnancy 163 83 130 129 128 135 134 142
Sensitivity
(95% CI)
97.02%
(94.45–99.59%)
49.40%
(41.85–56.97%)
77.38%
(71.06–83.71%)
76.79%
(70.40–83.17%)
76.19%
(69.75–82.63%)
80.36%
(74.35–86.37%)
79.76%
(73.69–85.84%)
82.08%
(76.37–87.80%)
Specificity
(95% CI)
99.98%
(99.97–99.98%)
91.99%
(91.85–92.14%)
75.83%
(75.61–76.06%)
91.97%
(91.83–92.12%)
99.97%
(99.96–99.98%)
94.78%
(94.66–94.90%)
99.96%
(99.94–99.97%)
100.00%
(100.00–100.00%)

Prenatal diagnosis: the sum of true positives and false positives.