Reduced left atrial contractile strain with speckle tracking analysis predicts abnormal plasma NTproBNP in an asymptomatic community population

Table 4 Receiver operating characteristic curve in predicting abnormal NTproBNP (NTproBNP ≥ 125 pg/ml) by MedCalc

	AUC	95% Confidence Interval	Cutoff point	sensitivity	specificity	p value
-ε_R	0.608	0.569–0.647	-20.28	0.604	0.564	< 0.001
-ε_CT	0.650	0.611–0.688	-10.88	0.644	0.641	< 0.001
LASI	0.690	0.652–0.726	0.612	0.775	0.564	< 0.001
E/E'	0.667	0.628–0.704	12.44	0.801	0.462	< 0.001
LAVI	0.658	0.620–0.696	19.899	0.732	0.521	< 0.001
Predicted probability	0.815	0.782–0.845	0.184	0.732	0.769	< 0.001

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