Table 4.
Validity of MUAC using weight for age as gold standard
| MUAC | Underweight |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | ||
| Positive | 9 | 9 | 18 |
| Negative | 26 | 275 | 301 |
| Total | 35 | 284 | 319 |
Sensitivity=25.7% and specificity=96.8%, Kappa=28.6% (negligible agreement).
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