Exploration of Lipid Metabolism Alterations in Children with Active Tuberculosis Using UHPLC-MS/MS

Table 3

The differential lipid metabolites for the diagnosis of active TB.

Metabolites	AUC	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	Youden Index	Best cut-off value
PC (15:0/17:1)	0.904	90.0	89.5	0.795	1.13+06
PC (17:1/18:2)	0.833	76.7	78.9	0.556	2.07+07
PE (18:1/20:3)	0.895	86.7	94.7	0.814	5.02+06

TB: tuberculosis; AUC: area under the ROC curve.