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Figure 3

From: Increased plasma levels of endozepines, endogenous ligands of benzodiazepine receptors, during systemic inflammation: a prospective observational study

Figure 3

Receiver operator characteristic curve generated with plasma levels of endozepines in patients with systemic inflammation and healthy volunteers. The receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve is the plot of the true positive rate (sensitivity) vs the false positive rate (100 − specificity) for different positivity thresholds (that is, different cutoff levels of endozepines). DBI-LI, Diazepam-binding inhibitor–like immunoreactivity. The calculated value of the area under the ROC curve (AUC) was 0.842 (superior to the random value of 0.5), indicating that DBI-LI plasma discriminated healthy volunteers from patients with systemic inflammation (P < 0.0001).

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