Table 3

Sensitivity analyses for unadjusted AUCs

AUC (95% CI) (unadjusted analyses)
All AD patients
All MCI patients
All CON participants
All AD patients
All MCI patients
CON: healthy and headache only
All AD patients
All MCI patients
CON: psychiatric and PD only
All participants minus study group B
AD versus CONCSF KLK80.80 (0.70 to 0.90)0.70 (0.55 to 0.83)0.96 (0.90 to 1.0)0.80 (0.70 to 0.90)
Blood KLK80.67 (0.60 to 0.74)0.60 (0.51 to 0.68)0.76 (0.67 to 0.85)0.70 (0.62 to 0.77)
MCI versus CONCSF KLK80.94 (0.86 to 1.0)0.91 (0.77 to 1.0)0.99 (0.98 to 1.0)0.94 (0.86 to 1.0)
Blood KLK80.70 (0.55 to 0.85)0.65 (0.48 to 0.83)0.77 (0.64 to 0.90)0.88 (0.74 to 1.0)
  • AUCs of CSF and blood KLK8 for discrimination of AD or MCI from controls are shown for different subgroups of participants. The first column shows data for all participants. In the second column patients with psychiatric diseases or PD and in the third column patients with tension-type headache and healthy volunteers are excluded. The fourth column represents the AUC values for all participants after exclusion of study group B (with blood samples only). Please note that AUC values of the sensitivity analyses are not adjusted and that adjustment in the main analysis was associated with an increase of the AUC.

  • AD, Alzheimer’s disease; AUC, area under the curve; CI, confidential interval; CON, controls; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; Headache, patients with tension-type headache; Healthy, healthy volunteers; KLK8, Kallikrein-8; MCI, mild cognitive impairment due to AD;PD, Parkinson’s disease; Psychiatric, patients with psychiatric diagnoses.