Research Article

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 ± SDMedianRange

MortalityDied0.37 ± 0.260.300.10–1.400.007
Discharge0.24 ± 0.080.230.10–0.38

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).