Screening for Nephropathy in Diabetes Mellitus: Is Micral-Test Valid among All Diabetics?

Table 4

Micral-test’s validity in literature.

Study	Number of patients	Sensibility (%)	Specificity (%)	NPV (%)	Area under curve
Our study	182	77	46	88	0.72
De Grauw et al. [35]	401	67	93		0.84
Incerti et al. [36]	278	90	46		0.84
Mogensen et al. [37]	2228	96.7	71		—
Parikh et al. [38]	444	88	80		—
Sarafidis et al. [39]	165	70	83		—
Cortés-Sanabria et al. [9]	71	83	96	88	0.91
Larijani et al. [32]	200	93	87	92
Le Floch et al. [33]	302	79	81	95	—
Mogensen et al. [37]	530	78	77

NPV: negative predictive value.