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Table 6 Diagnostic performances of HOTAIR and HOTTIP to discriminate (cirrhotic and HCC) patients from CLD patients

From: Long non-coding RNA HOTAIR and HOTTIP as potential biomarkers for hepatitis C virus genotype 4-induced hepatocellular carcinoma

Biomarkers in the studied groups

Cutoff

Sensitivity

Specificity

PPV

NPV

Accuracy

AUC

95% CI

p value

HOTAIR

Cirrhotic vs non-cirrhotic

4.7

48.0

72.0

63.2

58.1

60.0

52.0

35.6–68.4

0.8

HCC vs non-cirrhotic

> 9.2

64.0

96.0

94.1

72.7

80.0

78.6

65.6–91.7

< 0.0001**

HCC vs cirrhotic

> 7.0

64.0

76.0

72.7

67.9

70.0

69.8

55.5–84.1

0.007**

HCC vs CLD without HCC

> 9.2

64.0

86.0

69.6

82.7

78.7

74.2

61.9–86.5

0.001**

HOTTIP

Cirrhotic vs non-cirrhotic

13.4

32.0

100.0

100.0

59.5

66.0

53.9

37.1–70.8

0.64

HCC vs non-cirrhotic

> 13.4

52.0

100.0

100.0

67.6

76.0

70.8

56.2–85.4

0.005**

HCC vs cirrhotic

> 34.8

36.0

92.0

81.8

59.0

64.0

65.8

51.3–80.4

0.03*

HCC vs CLD without HCC

> 16.6

48.0

88.0

66.7

77.2

74.7

68.3

55.0–81.7

0.007**

  1. PPV Positive predictive value, NPV Negative predictive value and AUC Area under curve, *p value <0.05 is significant, **p value <0.01 is highly significant