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. 2014 Mar 13;16(12):957–965. doi: 10.1177/1098612X14527472

Table 3.

Correlations between body condition score assigned by a veterinarian, a veterinary technician, a trained scorer and an untrained scorer, and body weight and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry-measured percent body fat in 133 adult cats

Evaluator Body weight % Body fat
Veterinarian 0.58 0.80
Veterinary technician 0.60 0.69
Trained scorer 0.66 0.71
Untrained scorer 0.62 0.73
Veterinarian + veterinary technician 0.63 0.80