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. 2014 Oct 21;9(10):e110005. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110005

Table 5. Receiver operating characteristic curves: Areas under the curve, sensibility, specificity, positive and negative predictive values.

AUC Se Sp PPV NPV
LVLW EAT thickness 0.5820 0.4610 0.6653 0.8081 0.2875
Calcium scoring 0.7633 0.6261 0.8514 0.8903 0.5418
Conventional CV risk factors 0.6611 0.7699 0.4635 0.8154 0.3956
Conventional CV risk factors + LVLW EAT thickness 0.6751 0.8061 0.4506 0.8187 0.4303
Conventional CV risk factors + calcium scoring 0.7573 0.6535 0.7352 0.8269 0.5230
Conventional CV risk factors + LVLW EAT thickness + calcium scoring 0.7586 0.7356 0.6706 0.8121 0.5672

AUC  =  area under the curve; Se  =  sensibility; Sp =  specificity; PPV  =  positive predictive value; NPV  =  negative predictive value; CV  =  cardiovascular; other abbreviations as in Table 1.