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Table 2
Main characteristics of the studies included in the meta-analysis.
| N | Author | Year | Country | Number of patients | Sensitivity | Specificity | Cutoff point (mAU/mL) | AUROC |
| 1 | Young Joon Yoon et al. | 2009 | Korea | 206 | 0.519 | 0.97 | 40 | 0.777 | 2 | Seung In Seo et al. | 2015 | Korea | 1255 | 0.739 | 0.897 | 40 | 0.854 | 3 | Xiumei Wang et al. | 2017 | China | 113 | 0.5221 | 0.8149 | 32.09 | 0.756 | 4 | Shujing Huang et al. | 2017 | China | 163 | 0.85 | 0.90 | 40 | 0.893 | 5 | Xiao-Qiong Tang et al. | 2017 | China | 366 | 0.824 | 0.959 | 40 | 0.923 | 6 | Chen et al. | 2018 | China | 459 | 0.720 | 0.937 | 49.5 | 0.863 |
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