Predictors of esophageal varices and first variceal bleeding in liver cirrhosis patients

Table 3 Performance of fibrosis-4-index for prediction of esophageal varices (n = 139; esophageal varices: n = 113)

Cut-off	Sensitivity	Specificity	PPV	NPV	AUC (95%CI)1	P value
3.23	72%	58%	88%	32%	0.66 (0.54-0.78)	0.011

¹AUC (area under the curve) obtained from the receiver operating characteristic. FIB-4: Fibrosis-4-index; NPV: Negative predictive value; PPV: Positive predictive value.