Blood cell for the differentiation of airway inflammatory phenotypes in COPD exacerbations

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Table 3 ROC curve analyses of blood parameters for predicting airway inflammatory phenotype

	AUC	P-value	95% Confidence interval		Cutoff point	Sensitivity %	Specificity %
	AUC	P-value	Lower boundary	Upper boundary	Cutoff point	Sensitivity %	Specificity %
Predicting eosinophilic AECOPD (the percentage of sputum eosinophils ≥2.5%)
Eosinophils (×10⁹/L)	0.626	0.025	0.407	0.844	0.35	71.4	49.6
Eosinophils %	0.672	0.012	0.494	0.849	0.55	85.7	52.8
Blood ELR	0.601	0.036	0.389	0.813	0.03	71.4	50.3
Blood ENR	0.603	0.035	0.392	0.814	0.01	71.4	54.1
Blood EMR	0.604	0.034	0.387	0.822	0.07	71.4	50.4
Blood NLR	0.375	0.255	0.201	0.549
Blood NMR	0.503	0.978	0.283	0.723
Blood MLR	0.374	0.252	0.256	0.492

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