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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 8.
Published in final edited form as: Kidney Int. 2011 Feb 9;79(10):10.1038/ki.2010.555. doi: 10.1038/ki.2010.555

AUC for diagnosis of AKI according to time after insult and eGFR

eGFR (ml/min) Time from insult <6h
n=24 [3]
6 to <12h
n=40 [4]
12 to <36h
n=12 [8]
≥36h
n=20 [12]
<60 GGT/uCr 0.41 (0.08–0.75) 0.26 (0.04–0.49) 0.91 (0.73–1) 0.48 (0.21–0.74)
AP/uCr 0.17 (0–0.38) 0.19 (0.01–0.37) 0.62 (0.29–0.96) 0.40 (0.13–0.66)
CysC/uCr 0.69 (0.34–1) 0.65 (0.35–0.96) 0.88 (0.67–1) 0.44 (0.17–0.70)
NGAL/uCr 0.45 (0.10–0.80) 0.39 (0.07–0.7) 0.85 (0.58–1) 0.58 (0.32–0.84)
IL-18/uCr 0.62 (0.26–0.98) 0.61 (0.30–0.92) 0.94 (0.80–1) 0.41 (0.14–0.67)
KIM-1/uCr 0.73 (0.39–1) 0.43 (0.14–0.72) 0.66 (0.33–0.98) 0.65 (0.40–0.89)
n=64 [14] n=27 [9] n=43 [16] n=38 [17]

60–<90 GGT/uCr 0.70 (0.53–0.86) 0.69 (0.46–0.91) 0.67 (0.50–0.84) 0.48 (0.30–0.67)
AP/uCr 0.65 (0.47–0.82) 0.55 (0.31–0.79) 0.38 (0.21–0.55) 0.41 (0.23–0.59)
CysC/uCr 0.63 (0.46–0.81) 0.65 (0.42–0.88) 0.59 (0.41–0.77) 0.40 (0.22–0.58)
NGAL/uCr 0.58 (0.40–0.76) 0.60 (0.35–0.85) 0.72 (0.54–0.89) 0.52 (0.33–0.72)
IL-18/uCr 0.61 (0.44–0.79) 0.73 (0.52–0.95) 0.58 (0.40–0.76) 0.43 (0.24–0.61)
KIM-1/uCr 0.75 (0.59–0.91) 0.66 (0.43–0.89) 0.72 (0.56–0.89) 0.44 (0.26–0.63)
n=56 [10] n=35 [5] n=35 [14] n=32 [5]

90–<120 GGT/uCr 0.87 (0.73–1) 0.85 (0.64–1) 0.47 (0.28–0.66) 0.70 (0.42–0.97)
AP/uCr 0.64 (0.44–0.84) 0.60 (0.32–0.88) 0.38 (0.20–0.56) 0.29 (0.07–0.51)
CysC/uCr 0.83 (0.67–0.99) 0.89 (0.70–1) 0.74 (0.57–0.91) 0.64 (0.36–0.93)
NGAL/uCr 0.82 (0.65–1) 0.64 (0.33–0.95) 0.73 (0.55–0.91) 0.52 (0.23–0.80)
IL-18/uCr 0.71 (0.52–0.91) 0.78 (0.52–1) 0.66 (0.47–0.84) 0.52 (0.24–0.80)
KIM-1/uCr 0.53 (0.33–0.74) 0.85 (0.63–1) 0.59 (0.40–0.78) 0.73 (0.47–1)
n=33 [10] n=21 [3] n=22 [11] n=20 [6]

≥120 GGT/uCr 0.67 (0.45–0.88) 0.78 (0.45–1) 0.54 (0.29–0.78) 0.61 (0.32–0.89)
AP/uCr 0.65 (0.43–0.86) 0.63 (0.26–1) 0.32 (0.10–0.55) 0.40 (0.13–0.67)
CysC/uCr 0.60 (0.38–0.81) 0.75 (0.40–1) 0.64 (0.40–0.87) 0.76 (0.50–1)
NGAL/uCr 0.66 (0.43–0.88) 0.72 (0.37–1) 0.68 (0.45–0.91) 0.63 (0.33–0.94)
IL-18/uCr 0.54 (0.32–0.76) 0.54 (0.17–0.9) 0.45 (0.21–0.7) 0.64 (0.36–0.92)
KIM-1/uCr 0.46 (0.24–0.67) 0.61 (0.24–0.98) 0.64 (0.40–0.87) 0.62 (0.34–0.90)

Abbreviations: AKI, acute kidney injury; AP, alkaline phosphatase; AUC, area under the receiver operator characteristic curve; CysC, cystatin C; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; GGT, γ-glutamyltranspeptidase; IL-18, interleukin-18; KIM-1, kidney injury molecule-1; NGAL, neutrophil-gelatinase-associated lipocalin; uCr, urinary creatinine.

n=total number in category. Square brackets show number of patients with AKI.