Review Article
Thyroid Autoantibodies in Pregnancy: Their Role, Regulation and Clinical Relevance
Table 3
Sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive values of thyroid autoantibodies when sampling done at the different times in pregnancy and post-partum adapted from Premawardhana et al. The positive predictive value of thyroid antibodies in predictive post-partum thyroid disease [117].
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Sensitivity is defined as the number of true positives as a proportion of the sum of the number of true positives and false negatives. Specificity, defined as the number of true negatives as a proportion of the sum of the false positives and true negatives. Positive predictive value (PPV) is defined as the number of true-positives as a proportion of the sum of true and false positives. Unknown or not included. |