Prognostic Implications of Serum Lipid Metabolism over Time during Sepsis

Figure 3

Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves of triglyceride levels and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores to predict mortality. On the day of admission, the area under curve for triglyceride levels was 0.62 (sensitivity = 94.7%, specificity = 29.6, and ), and that for the SOFA score was 0.63 (sensitivity = 21.2%, specificity = 96.9, and ). In addition, adjusting for triglyceride levels with the SOFA score significantly improved the predictive accuracy of 28-day mortality (AUC = 0.716, sensitivity = 71.1%, specificity = 66.7%, and ).