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. 2020 Mar 10;74(1):277–286. doi: 10.3233/JAD-191226

Table 2.

AUCs from Disease state index classifiers differentiating between healthy controls without amyloid pathology, mild cognitive impairment with amyloid pathology and dementia patients with amyloid pathology. 95% confidence intervals are given with the mean AUC

AUC [95% CI] Control versus Dementia Control versus MCI MCI versus Dementia
Total CSF + Metabolomics 0.89 [0.87–0.90] 0.84 [0.81–0.87] 0.70 [0.68–0.73]
Total CSF markers 0.87 [0.85–0.89] 0.80 [0.77–0.84] 0.64 [0.61–0.67]
  Aβ42 Not included Not included 0.65 [0.62–0.67]
  tTau 0.90 [0.88–0.91] 0.82 [0.79–0.85] 0.58 [0.55–0.60]
  PTau 0.78 [0.75–0.80] 0.75 [0.72–0.79] 0.49 [0.47–0.52]
Total Metabolic markers 0.73 [0.71–0.76] 0.75 [0.72–0.78] 0.68 [0.65–0.70]
Total Serum Lipids 0.71 [0.68–0.74] 0.69 [0.65–0.72] 0.61 [0.59–0.64]
  Lipoproteins 0.74 [0.72–0.77] 0.72 [0.68–0.76] 0.62 [0.59–0.65]
  Cholesterols 0.66 [0.63–0.69] 0.67 [0.63–0.71] 0.62 [0.59–0.65]
  Glycerides and phospholipids 0.69 [0.66–0.72] 0.62 [0.58–0.66] 0.51 [0.48–0.53]
  Fatty acids 0.66 [0.63–0.69] 0.66 [0.62–0.70] 0.54 [0.51–0.56]
Total Serum LMWM 0.72 [0.69–0.75] 0.64 [0.60–0.68] 0.61 [0.59–0.64]
  Energy and ketone bodies 0.62 [0.59–0.65] 0.53 [0.49–0.57] 0.61 [0.58–0.63]
  Amino acids 0.70 [0.67–0.73] 0.66 [0.62–0.70] 0.54 [0.51–0.57]
Total CSF LMWM 0.63 [0.60–0.66] 0.73 [0.69–0.77] 0.64 [0.62–0.67]
  Energy and ketone bodies 0.55 [0.51–0.58] 0.67 [0.63–0.71] 0.62 [0.59–0.64]
  Amino acids 0.65 [0.61–0.68] 0.65 [0.61–0.69] 0.58 [0.55–0.60]
  Organic nitrous 0.55 [0.53–0.58] 0.69 [0.66–0.73] 0.52 [0.50–0.55]
  Organosulfurs 0.61 [0.58–0.64] 0.53 [0.49–0.56] 0.53 [0.50–0.56]

42, amyloid-β 42; AD, Alzheimer’s disease; AUC, area under curve; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; LMWM, low-molecular-weight metabolites; MCI, mild cognitive impairment; pTau, phosphorylated tau; tTau, total tau.