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Table 4 Sensitivity and specificity of the five items for distinguishing MCI from NC

From: The items in the Chinese version of the Montreal cognitive assessment basic discriminate among different severities of Alzheimer’s disease

Item

AUC

95% CI

Cutoff

Sensitivity %

Specificity %

Verbal fluency

0.701

0.664–0.737

≤9

72.3

55.4

Orientation

0.675

0.637–0.713

≤5

91.5

24.3

Visual perception

0.579

0.539–0.619

≤7

75.1

51.7

Immediate recall

0.673

0.635–0.711

≤8

54.7

71.2

Delayed recall

0.808

0.777–0.839

≤9

63.2

83.1

  1. AUC: area under curve; CI: confidence interval