Research Article

Salivary Lactate Dehydrogenase in Relationship to the Severity of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy among Newborn Infants

Table 4

Sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy at different cutoff levels of salivary LDH.

Cutoff pointsSensitivity (%)Specificity (%)

83598.395.3
142098.397.6
156096.697.6

āˆ—PPV: positive predictive value; NPV: negative predictive value.