Small airway dysfunction as predictor and marker for clinical response to biological therapy in severe eosinophilic asthma: a longitudinal observational study

Table 2 Area under the curve (AUC) of clinical predictors

Clinical marker	AUC	P-value	95% Confidence Interval
Clinical marker	AUC	P-value	Lower limit	Upper limit
FDR%	0.79	0.03	0.59	0.99
FeNO	0.76	0.06	0.49	1.00
Blood eosinophils	0.64	0.31	0.36	0.93
FEV1%	0.44	0.67	0.14	0.74
FeNO and blood eosinophils	0.72	0.10	0.46	0.99
FEV1 and blood eosinophils	0.66	0.23	0.39	0.94
FDR and blood eosinophils	0.85	0.01	0.67	1.00

Areas under the curves from (Fig. 1) used to compare the accuracy of each tested marker. P-Values and confidence intervals to define significant test (p > 0.05)

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