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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2014 Jun 26;60(2):622–632. doi: 10.1002/hep.26980

Table 3.

Measures of Test Performance Characteristics

Optimal
Cut
Point
Proportion Over
Cut Point with ATN
AUC (95% CI) Validation
AUC*
Tubular injury markers
   NGAL (ng/ml) 365 25/35 (71%) 0.78 (0.69–0.88) 0.787
   IL-18 (pg/ml) 85 21/33 (64%) 0.71 (0.61–0.81) 0.711
   KIM-1 (ng/ml) 15.4 15/24 (63%) 0.64 (0.53–0.75) 0.639
   L-FABP (ng/ml) 25 21/30 (70%) 0.69 (0.57–0.80) 0.688
Tubular function marker
   FENa (%) 0.1 22/62 (35%) 0.56 (0.45–0.68) 0.563
Glomerular injury marker
   Albumin (mg/dL) 44 29/52 (56%) 0.73 (0.64–0.83) 0.734

Abbreviations: ATN, acute tubular necrosis; AUC, area under the curve; CI, confidence interval; NGAL, neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin; IL-18, interleukin-18; KIM-1, kidney injury molecule-1; L-FABP, liver-type fatty acid binding protein; FENa, fractional excretion of sodium

*

Validation AUCs derived from leave-10-out cross validation performed with SAS Proc Surveyselect