Comparison of China Reference with Different National and International References: The Prevalence of High Blood Pressure in 695,302 Children and Adolescents in a Metropolis of Yangtze River Delta, China

Table 5

Performance of the 3 other methods for the identification of high blood pressure.

	AUC (95% CI)	Sensitivity	Specificity	PPV	NPV	Kappa value
Males
U.S.	0.941 (0.940, 0.942)	0.988	0.894	0.683	0.997	0.753
International	0.850 (0.848, 0.852)	0.787	0.913	0.678	0.949	0.659
Europe	0.954 (0.953, 0.956)	0.939	0.970	0.878	0.986	0.885
Females
U.S.	0.954 (0.953, 0.955)	0.976	0.932	0.780	0.994	0.830
International	0.852 (0.850, 0.854)	0.744	0.960	0.820	0.939	0.730
Europe	0.944 (0.942, 0.945)	0.901	0.987	0.943	0.976	0.903
Total
U.S.	0.947 (0.946, 0.948)	0.982	0.912	0.726	0.995	0.788
International	0.851 (0.849, 0.852)	0.767	0.935	0.736	0.944	0.691
Europe	0.949 (0.948, 0.950)	0.921	0.978	0.907	0.981	0.893