ABSTRACT
Objective To evaluate the role of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody(ACCP) and rheumatoid factor(RF) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.Methods ACCP antibody and RF were detected in serum samples of 90 RA patients,30 other diseases patients and 35 healthy blood donors.The sensitivity,specificity,positive predictive value,negative predictive value,agreement rate and Youden`s index of these parsmeters for the diangnosis of RA were analyzed.We maped the receiver operative characteristic curve(ROC) and calculated area under the ROC curve.Results The positive rates of ACCP and RF were higher than those of patients with other diseases or healthy controls(P0.5).Conclusion ACCP is a valuable index for RA diagnosis.It is useful in improving the diagnostic accuracy of RA.