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Published in final edited form as: Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013 Dec 14;12(7):1163–1169.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2013.11.035

Table 3.

Diagnostic accuracy of several levels of serum ferritin in staging fibrosis (n = 1,014)

Fibrosis stage Ferritin > ULN (n = 331) Ferritin > 1.5 x ULN (n = 189) Ferritin > 2.0 x ULN (n = 103)
AUROC (95% CI)
Sensitivity (%), Specificity (%)		 AUROC (95% CI)
Sensitivity (%), Specificity (%)		 AUROC (95% CI)
Sensitivity (%), Specificity (%)
0 vs. 1/2/3/4 0.57 (0.53, 0.60)
37, 76		 0.55 (0.52, 0.59)
22, 89		 0.54 (0.50, 0.58)
13, 95
0/1 vs. 2/3/4 0.55 (0.52, 0.59)
39, 72		 0.55 (0.52, 0.59)
25, 86		 0.53 (0.50, 0.57)
14, 93
0/1/2 vs. 3/4 0.55 (0.51, 0.59)
41, 70		 0.56 (0.52, 0.60)
27, 84		 0.54 (0.50, 0.58)
16, 92

ULN, upper limit of normal; AUROC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve.