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Table 2 The performance of different biomarkers in the prediction of cardio-embolic stroke

From: Cardio embolic stroke and blood biomarkers: diagnosis and predictors of short-term outcome

Biomarker

Cutoff

AUC

Sensitivity

Specificity

PPV

NPV

Accuracy

p

BNP

69.5

0.798

75

62.5

66.7

71.4

68.8

< 0.001**

D-Dimer

570

0.791

90.9

66.3

81.8

72.7

79.2

0.001*

CK-MB

0.95

0.907

85.4

75

77.4

83.7

80.2

< 0.001**

  1. BNP brain natriuretic peptide, CK-MB creatine–kinase, PPV positive predictive value, NPV negative predictive value
  2. **Statistically highly significant
  3. *Statistically significant
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