[Retracted] Urinary Angiogenin as a Marker for Bladder Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

Table 3

Pooled AUC, index, sensitivity, specificity, LR⁺, LR^-, and DOR for diagnosing ANG in the urine of patients with bladder cancer based on the random effects model.

No. studies	AUC		Variables	Pooled (95% CI)	(%)	Cochran’s-		value
4	0.789	0.726	Sensitivity	0.710 (0.662-0.753)	20.8%	3.79	NA	0.285
			Specificity	0.780 (0.736-0.819)	92.1%	37.95	NA	<0.0001
			LR^+	3.344 (2.021-5.533)	82.7%	17.33	0.197	0.001
			LR^-	0.376 (0.320-0.441)	0%	53.67	0	0.521
			DOR	9.992 (4.691–21.282)	77.4%	13.26	0.443	0.004

AUC: area under the curve; : -squared; : Chi-squared; : tau-squared; NA: not assessed; LR⁺: positive likelihood ratio; LR^-: negative likelihood ratio; DOR: diagnostic odds ratio; CI: confidence interval. , where is the Chi-squared statistic and df is the degree of freedom of statistic.