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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Res Nurs. 2015 Oct 27;18(3):316–321. doi: 10.1177/1099800415611248

Table 3.

Diagnostic accuracy of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) at the median threshold for differentiating between preterm and term birth.

Diagnostic Measure Overall
(Estimate [95%CI])		 African American
(Estimate [95%CI])		 Hispanic
(Estimate [95%CI])
Sensitivity 0.63 (0.50, 0.74) 0.71 (0.44, 0.90) 0.60 (0.46, 0.73)
Specificity 0.52 (0.48, 0.56) 0.53 (0.45, 0.60) 0.51 (0.47, 0.56)
Positive predictive value 0.14 (0.10, 0.18) 0.14 (0.07, 0.22) 0.14 (0.10, 0.19)
Negative predictive value 0.92 (0.88, 0.95) 0.94 (0.88, 0.98) 0.91 (0.86, 0.94)
Odds ratio 1.79 (1.08, 2.94) 2.65 (0.93, 7.54) 1.59 (0.90, 2.80)

Note: CI: confidence interval