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. 2014 Oct 20;9(10):e110527. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110527

Table 2. Characteristics of the urinary biomarkers.

AUC (95% CI) Cut-offvalue Sensitivity(95% CI) Specificity(95% CI) Positivepredictive value Negativepredictive value Positivelikelihood ratio Negativelikelihood ratio P value
NGAL (ng/mgcreatinine) 0.876 (0.800–0.951) 61.0 0.78 (0.62–0.89) 0.86 (0.71–0.95) 0.83 0.74 5.57 0.26 <0.0001
MCP-1 (pg/mg creatinine) 0.781 (0.677–0.885) 642.0 0.75 (0.59–0.87) 0.78 (0.62–0.90) 0.79 0.69 3.41 0.32 <0.0001
L-FABP (ng/mg creatinine) 0.635 (0.509–0.762) 91.3 0.35 (0.21–0.52) 0.97 (0.86–1.00) 0.93 0.55 11.7 0.67 0.041
IL-18 (pg/mgcreatinine) 0.595 (0.463–0.726) 268.9 0.43 (0.27–0.59) 0.89 (0.75–0.97) 0.67 0.56 3.91 0.64 0.153
Osteopontin (µg/mg creatinine) 0.618 (0.491–0.745) 17.6 0.45 (0.29–0.62) 0.81 (0.65–0.92) 0.6 0.55 2.37 0.68 0.075
Cystatin C (ng/mg creatinine) 0.511 (0.379–0.643) 13.6 0.35 (0.21–0.51) 0.89 (0.75–0.97) 0.41 0.21 3.18 0.73 0.866
Clusterin (µg/mg creatinine) 0.521 (0.392–0.650) 1.63 0.65 (0.49–0.79) 0.49 (0.32–0.66) 0.50 0.46 1.27 0.71 0.746

Abbreviations: AUC, area under the curve; CI, confidence interval; IL-18, interleukin-18; L-FABP, liver-type fatty acid-binding protein; MCP-1, monocyte chemotactic protein-1; NGAL, neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin.