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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2021 Jan 19;147(3):977–983.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2020.11.034

TABLE II.

Diagnostic characteristics of peanut SPT, peanut-sIgE, and sIgE to peanut components

Characteristic Sensitivity (95% CI) Specificity (95% CI) LR+ LR− ROC AUC
SPT wheal size 3 mm 92% (78%–98%) 88% (84%–91%) 7.68 0.09 0.90 (0.85–0.95)
SPT wheal size 8 mm 73% (56%–85%) 99% (96%–99%) 51.81 0.27 0.87 (0.78–0.93)
Ara h 2-sIgE (0.1 kUa/L) 94% (81%–99%) 98% (95%–99%) 43.29 0.06 0.96 (0.92–1.0)
Ara h 2-sIgE (0.35 kUa/L) 89% (74%–96%) 99% (97%–99.8%) 81.48 0.11 0.94 (0.89–0.99)
Ara h 2-sIgE (1 kUa/L) 72% (56%–84%) 99% (97%–99.9%) 99.31 0.28 0.86 (0.79–0.93)
Peanut-sIgE (0.1 kUa/L) 100% (89%–100%) 78% (73%–83%) 4.60 0.00 0.89 (0.86–0.92)
Peanut-sIgE (0.35 kUa/L) 97% (85%–100%) 86% (81%–89%) 6.7 0.03 0.91 (0.88–0.95)
Ara h 1-sIgE (0.1 kUa/L) 58% (42%–73%) 90% (86%–93%) 5.73 0.46 0.74 (0.66–0.83)
Ara h 3-sIgE (0.1 kUa/L) 33% (20%–50%) 94% (91%–97%) 6.04 0.71 0.64 (0.56–0.72)
Ara h 8-sIgE (0.1 kUa/L) 3% (0%–0.15%) 100% (98%–100%) 0.97 0.51 (0.49–0.54)

LR+, Positive likelihood ratio; LR−, negative likelihood ratio; ROC, receiver-operator characteristic.