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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 21.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Child Health Nutr. 2016;5(3):87–94.

Table 2.

Agreement of WHtR Categories Measured Using NHANES and WHO Protocols by Gender

BMI Percentile <85% Male Female
WHO WHO
NHANES ≤0.5
n (%)		 >0.5
n (%)		 ≤0.5
n (%)		 >0.5
n (%)
≤0.5 1034 (95.9) 0 (0) 821 (82.7) 1 (0.10)
>0.5 37 (3.43) 7 (0.7) 151 (15.2) 20 (2.0)
Kappa (95% CI) 0.27
(0.11, 0.42)		 0.18
(0.11, 0.25)
BMI Percentile ≥85% WHO WHO
NHANES ≤0.5
n (%)		 >0.5
n (%)		 ≤0.5
n (%)		 >0.5
n (%)
≤0.5 150 (21.1) 2 (0.3) 64 (7.7) 4 (0.5)
>0.5 143 (20.1) 416 (58.5) 211 (25.3) 554 (66.5)
Kappa (95% CI) 0.55
(0.49, 0.61)		 0.28
(0.22, 0.34)