Research Article

Diagnostic Accuracy with Total Adenosine Deaminase as a Biomarker for Discriminating Pleural Transudates and Exudates in a Population-Based Cohort Study

Figure 1

ROC curve of pleural fluid values and 95% CIs of adenosine deaminase for the diagnosis of exudates. The optimum cut-off point in ROC curve space was determined as the level that provided the maximum positive likelihood and was 22.0 U/L. (95% CI, 0.751-0.877; ; SE, 0.0393; ). Abbreviations: CIs: confidence intervals; AUC: area under the ROC curve; SE: standard error.