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World J Gastroenterol. Dec 21, 2026; 32(47): 121435
Published online Dec 21, 2026. doi: 10.3748/wjg.121435
Table 3 Diagnostic performance of the model for different hepatic venous pressure gradient thresholds
HVPG
Group
Sensitivity (95%CI)
Specificity (95%CI)
PPV (95%CI)
NPV (95%CI)
AUC (95%CI)
> 5 mmHgTraining set0.999 (0.998, 1.000)0.817 (0.798, 0.834)0.941 (0.935, 0.947)0.998 (0.994, 0.999)0.999 (0.999, 1.000)
Internal testing set0.990 (0.968, 0.997)0.389 (0.183, 0.639)0.964 (0.935, 0.981)0.700 (0.354, 0.919)0.956 (0.922, 0.991)
Temporally independent validation set0.967 (0.901, 0.992)0.500 (0.223, 0.777)0.937 (0.862, 0.974)0.667 (0.309, 0.910)0.951 (0.911, 0.991)
≥ 10 mmHgTraining set0.986 (0.982, 0.989)0.970 (0.963, 0.976)0.983 (0.979, 0.987)0.974 (0.968, 0.980)0.998 (0.998, 0.999)
Internal testing set0.992 (0.970, 0.999)0.519 (0.380, 0.655)0.909 (0.868, 0.938)0.933 (0.765, 0.988)0.934 (0.905, 0.962)
Temporally independent validation set0.940 (0.859, 0.978)0.857 (0.626, 0.962)0.963 (0.888, 0.990)0.783 (0.558, 0.917)0.962 (0.927, 0.996)
≥ 12 mmHgTraining set0.986 (0.982, 0.989)0.990 (0.985, 0.993)0.993 (0.991, 0.995)0.978 (0.972, 0.983)0.999 (0.999, 1.000)
Internal testing set0.996 (0.972, 1.000)0.640 (0.531, 0.737)0.875 (0.827, 0.912)0.983 (0.895, 0.999)0.978 (0.965, 0.991)
Temporally independent validation set0.912 (0.823, 0.961)0.958 (0.769, 0.998)0.986 (0.917, 0.999)0.767 (0.573, 0.894)0.972 (0.943, 1.000)
≥ 16 mmHgTraining set0.938 (0.929, 0.946)0.967 (0.961, 0.972)0.958 (0.951, 0.965)0.951 (0.944, 0.957)0.993 (0.992, 0.994)
Internal testing set0.941 (0.899, 0.967)0.853 (0.762, 0.914)0.937 (0.894, 0.964)0.862 (0.772, 0.921)0.955 (0.922, 0.988)
Temporally independent validation set0.905 (0.809, 0.958)0.833 (0.645, 0.937)0.931 (0.839, 0.974)0.781 (0.596, 0.901)0.932 (0.877, 0.987)
≥ 20 mmHgTraining set0.906 (0.891, 0.919)0.969 (0.964, 0.973)0.899 (0.883, 0.912)0.971 (0.967, 0.975)0.992 (0.991, 0.993)
Internal testing set0.793 (0.730, 0.845)0.875 (0.796, 0.927)0.920 (0.867, 0.954)0.700 (0.616, 0.773)0.895 (0.849, 0.940)
Temporally independent validation set0.750 (0.575, 0.873)0.912 (0.811, 0.964)0.818 (0.639, 0.924)0.873 (0.768, 0.937)0.904 (0.846, 0.961)


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