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Table 5 ROC curves, optimal cutoff value, AUC, and predictive accuracy of NRL and PLR

From: Correlation between neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and platelet to lymphocyte ratio with proteinuria in different stages of chronic kidney disease

	NLR			PLR
	Stage III A	Stage III B	Stage IV	Stage III A	Stage III B	Stage IV
AUC	0.976	0.965	0.962	0.938	0.981	0.968
Sensitivity	91.4%	92.6%	89.7%	81.4%	94.4%	89.7%
Specificity	86.7%	87.1%	89.3%	80.0%	90.3%	85.7%
Youden’s index	0.781	0.797	0.789	0.614	0.848	0.754
Cutoff	2.169	2.380	2.814	116.261	119.286	129.5
P value	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	< 0.0001

NLR Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, PLR Platelet to lymphocyte ratio, CKD Chronic kidney disease, AUC Area under the curve. P<0.05 is considered statistically significant

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