Table 3. Validity indicators, with confidence intervals, from EGIR, AACE, NCEP ATP III, BARBOSA et al. (2006) [32], and IDF criteria, with IDF/AHA/NHLBI as a gold standard criteria for the diagnosis of MetS in nursing professionals in Bahia, Brazil.

	Index tests % (95% CI)
Definition	EGIR	AACE	NCEP ATP III	Barbosa et al. (2006) [32]	IDF
Positive predictive value	100 (93.2–100)	97.3 (93.2–99.3)	100 (98.7–100)	99.7 (98.3–100)	100 (98.9–100)
Negative predictive value	72.1 (69.3–74.8)	78.9 (76.2–81.5)	93.1 (91.1–94.7)	96.8 (95.4–97.9)	97.8 (96.5–98.7)
Positive likelihood ratio	-	79.3 (29.6–212)	-	709 (100–5028)	-
Negative likelihood ratio	0.85 (0.81–0.89)	0.59 (0.54–0.64)	0.16 (0.13–0.21)	0.07 (0.04–0.10)	0.05 (0.31–0.78)

Source: Authors.

95% Confidence Interval.

- Estimate not obtained due to the absence of false positives.