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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2016 Jul 18;68(3):614–620. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.116.07659

Table 2.

Performance of the 11 simplified methods for the identification of high blood pressure in children and adolescents from the pooling data

Simplified method Boys Girls
AUC (95%CI) Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV AUC (95%CI) Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV
Method A- P5(H) 0.95 (0.95–0.95) 1.00 0.91 0.40 1.00 0.97 (0.97–0.97) 1.00 0.94 0.54 1.00
Method A- P50(H) 0.94 (0.93–0.94) 0.90 0.97 0.69 0.99 0.98 (0.97–0.98) 0.97 0.98 0.75 1.00
Method A- P95(H) 0.85 (0.84–0.87) 0.71 1.00 0.94 0.98 0.87 (0.86–0.88) 0.74 1.00 0.94 0.98
Method B- P5(H) 0.93 (0.93–0.94) 1.00 0.87 0.32 1.00 0.95 (0.95–0.96) 1.00 0.91 0.41 1.00
Method B- P50(H) 0.95 (0.95–0.96) 0.97 0.93 0.47 1.00 0.97 (0.96–0.97) 0.99 0.95 0.58 1.00
Method B- P95(H) 0.93 (0.92–0.94) 0.89 0.97 0.67 0.99 0.93 (0.92–0.94) 0.86 0.99 0.81 0.99
Method C- P5(H) 0.95 (0.95–0.95) 1.00 0.91 0.40 1.00 0.97 (0.96–0.97) 0.99 0.94 0.51 1.00
Method C- P50(H) 0.95 (0.95–0.96) 0.95 0.96 0.62 1.00 0.96 (0.95–0.96) 0.93 0.98 0.77 1.00
Method C- P95(H) 0.89 (0.88–0.91) 0.80 0.99 0.84 0.99 0.84 (0.83–0.86) 0.69 1.00 0.96 0.98
Method D 0.92 (0.91–0.93) 0.92 0.92 0.42 0.99 0.93 (0.93–0.94) 0.96 0.91 0.40 1.00
Method E 0.95 (0.94–0.95) 0.90 0.99 0.84 0.99 0.94 (0.93–0.95) 0.89 0.99 0.92 0.99

AUC, area under the curve; CI, confidence interval; PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value P5(H), P50(H), P95(H): 5th, 50th and 95th percentiles of a child’s height