Identification of a threshold to discriminate fasting hypertriglyceridemia with postprandial values

Table 2 Accuracy of postprandial lipemia cut-off points to discriminate fasting hypertriglyceridemia in overall and stratified populations

Cut-off point	Population	N	AUC	95% confidence interval	Sen	Spec	PPV	NPV
280 mg/dL	Normal	52	0.831	(0.725–0.936)	0.850	0.812	0.739	0.896
	Overweight-Obesity	147	0.778	(0.699–0.857)	0.831	0.725	0.890	0.617
	≤ 49 years	106	0.816	(0.739–0.894)	0.833	0.800	0.873	0.744
	> 50 years	98	0.786	(0.697–0.875)	0.846	0.727	0.859	0.705
	Women	143	0.787	(0.715–0.858)	0.824	0.750	0.852	0.709
	Men	69	0.858	(0.767–0.95)	0.891	0.826	0.911	0.791
200 mg/dL [15]	Overall	212	0.700	(0.644–0.755)	0.90	0.400	0.752	0.900
180 mg/dL [16]		212	0.593	(0.548–0.637)	0.90	0.186	0.691	0.900
175 mg/dL [17]		212	0.593	(0.548–0.637)	0.90	0.186	0.691	0.900

^aAUC area under the ROC curve, Sen sensibility, Spec specificity, PPV positive predictive value, NPV negative predictive value

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