Predicting the Long-Term Course of Asthma in Wheezing Infants Is Still a Challenge

Table 2

Assessment of the ability of modified API to predict time course development of asthma in adolescence in the study population.

Asthma at the follow-up end point	Sensitivity % (CI-95%)	Specificity % (CI-95%)	PPV %(CI-95%)	NPV %(CI-95%)	Area under the ROC curve	Correctly predicted, %
Positive API	87 (79–92)	37 (28–47)	61 (53–68)	71 (57–82)	0.62	68.7

PPV: positive predictive value; NPV: negative predictive value.
ROC: receiver operating characteristic curve.
API: asthma predictive index.