Table 1.
Measurements of different skin prick test techniques (Section 1).
Histamine wheal, mean ± SDa | Histamine flare, mean ± SDa | CV % İntrapatient | CV % İnterpatient | Sensitivity % (95% CI) | Specificity % (95% CI) | Pain median (IQR) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oryum-VP | 5.25 ± 0.65a | 21.84 ± 4.59a | 10.72 | 27.16 | 100 (80–100) | 100 (80–100) | 4 (2–5.5)a |
Oryum-VC | 7.85 ± 1.19b | 33.37 ± 3.6b | 14.43 | 29.65 | 100 (80–100) | 95 (73.1–99.7) | 4 (4–6)ab |
Oryum-VCC | 7.86 ± 1.33b | 31.93 ± 4.1b | 12.32 | 29.36 | 100 (80–100) | 95 (73.1–99.7) | 5 (4–8)b |
Oryum-WP | 4.22 ± 0.89c | 18.99 ± 4.5c | 24.31 | 37.26 | 100 (80–100) | 100 (80–100) | 4 (2–6)ab |
Lancet | 5.45 ± 0.85a | 24.85 ± 5.42a | 11.99 | 28.88 | 100 (80–100) | 100 (80–100) | 5 (2.5–8)ab |
P | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.008 |
a, b, c: different letters in the same column represent the statistically significant difference (p < 0.05).
Values for wheal and flare expressed in millimeters