Research Article
Salivary Interleukin-6 and C-Reactive Protein/Mean Platelet Volume Ratio in the Diagnosis of Late-Onset Neonatal Pneumonia
Table 3
Diagnostic performance of the tested markers for detection of late-onset neonatal pneumonia.
| | Parameter | AUC | 95% CI | Cutoff value | Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | PPV (%) | NPV (%) |
| | Salivary IL-6 (pg/ml) | 0.907 | 0.833–0.981 | >34 | 82.86 | 91.43 | 90.6 | 84.2 | | Serum IL-6 (pg/ml) | 0.921 | 0.848–0.993 | >15.3 | 88.57 | 88.57 | 88.6 | 88.6 | | MPV(fl) | 0.756 | 0.641–0.872 | >9.7 | 85.71 | 68.57 | 73.2 | 82.8 | | CRP/MPV ratio | 0.995 | 0.990–1.0 | >0.88 | 97.14 | 85.71 | 87.2 | 96.8 |
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IL-6: interleukin-6; MPV: mean platelet volume; CRP: C-reactive protein.
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