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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 20.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2009 Nov 25;30(3):E1–E11. doi: 10.1177/0272989X09351749

Table 4.

Comparing 2006 model predictions with prevalence estimates from 2005–2006 NHANES (95% CI).

Age 6–9 years Age 10–13 years Age 14–17 years
OUR MODEL NHANES OUR MODEL NHANES OUR MODEL NHANES
Normal 0.63 0.75 (0.68, 0.81) 0.60 0.63 (0.57, 0.68) 0.65 0.68 (0.64, 0.72)
Risk of Overweight 0.14 0.13 (0.10, 0.17) 0.20 0.18 (0.14, 0.21) 0.17 0.14 (0.12, 0.16)
Overweight Class 1 0.13 0.09 (0.06, 0.12) 0.15 0.15 (0.11, 0.19) 0.14 0.12 (0.10, 0.15)
Overweight Class 2 0.10 0.03 (0.02, 0.05) 0.06 0.04 (0.03, 0.06) 0.03 0.05 (0.03, 0.07)
Age 18–39 years Age 40–59 years Age 60+ years
OUR MODEL NHANES OUR MODEL NHANES OUR MODEL NHANES
Normal 0.44 0.42 (0.38, 0.45) 0.28 0.28 (0.25, 0.31) 0.30 0.27 (0.24, 0.31)
Over-weight 0.29 0.3 (0.27, 0.32) 0.36 0.31 (0.28, 0.35) 0.36 0.37 (0.34, 0.39)
Obese Class 1 0.15 0.16 (0.14, 0.19) 0.21 0.21 (0.18, 0.23) 0.20 0.21 (0.19, 0.23)
Obese Class 2 0.06 0.07 (0.06, 0.09) 0.09 0.11 (0.09, 0.13) 0.09 0.08 (0.07, 0.09)
Obese Class 3 0.06 0.05 (0.04, 0.06) 0.07 0.09 (0.07, 0.11) 0.05 0.07 (0.05, 0.09)
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