Free Fatty Acids in CSF and Neurological Clinical Scores: Prognostic Value for Stroke Severity in ICU
Table 6
The relation between free fatty acids in CSF and mortality.
FFA in CSF
value
Mean ± SD
Median
Range
Mortality
Died
0.37 ± 0.26
0.30
0.10–1.40
0.007
Discharge
0.24 ± 0.08
0.23
0.10–0.38
The ROC curve for correlation between FFA in CSF and mortality showed a cutoff value of 0.27, specificity of 72.2%, and sensitivity of 62.9% (Figure 1 and Table 7).