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Table 2 ROC for diagnosing proliferative LN among SLE patients with various urinary cell types as markers

From: The cellular signature of urinary immune cells in Lupus nephritis: new insights into potential biomarkers

Examined marker

Patients

Controls

Area under the ROC curve

Cutoff

Sensitivity

Specificity

 

(n =)

(n =)

  

(%)

(%)

uCD3 + CD8+

17

55

1.0000

>650 cells/dl

100

100

uCD3 + CD4+

19

55

0.9982

>270 cells/dl

100

98.25

   CCR7-CD45RO+

6

34

0.9832

>300 cells/dl

100

94.12

   CCR7 + CD45RO+

6

34

0.8172

>35 cells/dl

85.71

79.41

   CCR7 + CD45RO-

6

34

0.7941

>45 cells/dl

100

52.94

   CD40l+

6

34

0.9706

>100 cells/dl

100

70.59

   CD127-FoxP3+

7

13

0.9017

>5 cells/dl

77.78

84.44

Proteinuria

16

45

0.9201

>620 mg/d

93.75

83.87

uCD14+

17

31

0.9066

>1700 cells/dl

94.74

83.87

uCD19+

10

31

0.7823

>75 cells/dl

90

70.97

Creatinine

19

55

0.6031

>1.1 mg/dl

47.37

79.17

  1. Arranged according to area under the receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve; cutoff determined by Youden’s index.